Floquet analysis of extended Rabi models based on high-frequency expansion

TL;DR

This paper applies Floquet theory and high-frequency expansion to analyze extended quantum Rabi models, providing analytical solutions for quasi-energy spectra and insights into long-term dynamics in atom-light interactions.

Contribution

It introduces a Floquet-based analytical approach to extended Rabi models, revealing spectral features and population dynamics in high-frequency regimes.

Findings

Quasi-energy spectra match numerical results in deep-strong coupling regime

Avoided level crossings occur for quasi energies with same parity

External bias field influences spectral clustering and gap dependence

Abstract

The extended quantum Rabi models make a significant contribution to understand the quantum nature of the atom-light interaction. We transform two kinds of extended quantum Rabi model, anisotropic Rabi model and asymmetric Rabi model, into rotating frame, and regard them as periodically driven quantum systems. The analytical solutions of the quasi-energy spectrum as well as the Floquet modes for both models are constructed by applying the Floquet theory and the high-frequency expansion, which is applied to the non-stroboscopic dynamics of physical observables such as atomic inversion, transverse magnetization, atom-field correlation, etc. For anisotropic Rabi model, the quasi energy fits well with the numerical results even when the rotating-wave coupling is in the deep-strong coupling regime $g\simeq\hbar\omega$ if the counterrotating terms is small enough compared to the driving frequency. Avoided level crossing may occur for quasi energy with the same parity when the positive branch spectrum lines for the total excitation number $N$ cross the negative branch lines for $N+2$, while the high frequency expansion fails to predict this due to the conservation of the total excitation number. Furthermore, we present analytical and numerical study of the long-time evolution of population and figure out the analytical method is credible for the population dynamics. For asymmetric Rabi model, we find that the external bias field which breaks the parity symmetry of total excitation number tends to cluster the upper and lower branches into two bundles, and the detuning induced gap in the first temporal Brillouin zone shows a quadratic dependence on the bias. Both models prove that treating the Hamiltonian in the rotating frame by Floquet theory gives an alternative tool in the study of interaction between atom and light.