Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Abstract

We study the quantum dynamics of the center-of-mass momentum distribution for the populations of a cold gas with two-level system undergoing spontaneous decay and coupled to a Markovian thermal reservoir at arbitrary temperature. We derive the momentum-convolutionless coupled equations for momentum Fourier transform of the populations which can be easily solved numerically and analytically for a specific internal scheme and for zero-temperature cases. The time and momentum evolutions of the populations are obtained by inverse Fourier transform. The momentum spread and the center-of-mass entropy across one momentum dimension are computed and compared for different internal schemes, between zero-temperature and finite-temperature cases and between pi and sigma(+/-) transitions. For initial subrecoil momentum width, the sigma(+/-) transition displays a two-peak feature. Our results well describe the momentum spread dynamics of cold gas in thermal radiation at early: time and complement the results based on Fokker-Planck equation.

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Publication Title

Physical Review A

ISSN

1050-2947

Divisions

PHYSICS

Volume

66

Issue

6

Additional Information

Department of Physics, Faculty of Science Building, University of Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA

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