Insensitivity of the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model to thermal noise

TL;DR

This paper investigates the thermal robustness of the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model, showing it is largely insensitive to temperature effects and maintains coherence over time, unlike other multiphoton models.

Contribution

It demonstrates that the two-photon JCM's coherence and Rabi oscillation period are insensitive to temperature and photon number, using thermofield dynamics and perturbation theory.

Findings

The period of Rabi oscillations in the two-photon JCM is temperature-independent.

The relative entropy of coherence remains stable over time at finite temperatures.

Other multiphoton JCMs show decay of coherence at nonzero temperatures.

Abstract

We study the thermal effects of the multiphoton Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM) using a thermofield dynamics (TFD) method. Letting the initial state of the whole system for the multiphoton JCM be a product of the ground state of an atom and a coherent state of a cavity field at finite temperature, we compute its time evolution. We evaluate a period of the collapse and revival of the Rabi oscillations and the relative entropy of coherence of the atom up to the second-order perturbation of the low-temperature expansion. We show that an intuitive estimation of the period matches the result of the perturbation theory of TFD well. In particular, we see that the period of the two-photon JCM hardly depends on the amplitude of the coherent state of the cavity field or the temperature. Numerical calculations suggest that the relative entropy of coherence of the two-photon JCM does not decay even for nonzero-temperature cases as time proceeds. By contrast, the relative entropyies of coherence for single-, three-, and four-photon JCMs decay as time proceeds for zero- and finite-temperature cases.