Purification of the atom-field interaction Hamiltonian

Abstract

We study the Jaynes-Cummings model with initial mixed states, for the atom or the field, are considered. The evolved mixed field density matrix is purified to a wavefunction that describes the interaction between a quantised field and an artificial four-level atom. This allows us to use the Araki-Lieb inequality to calculate the field entropy from the atomic entropy. We then suggest Hamiltonians that reproduce the field entropy dynamics. We finally show that more realistic Hamiltonians may be considered by using two entangled two-level atoms.

Keywords

• Purification techniques
• Atom-field interaction
• Entropy
• Quasiprobability distribution functions