Title
Simultaneous stochastic effects of a thermal reservoir and an electromagnetic field on the optical susceptibility of a two-level system
Date Issued
15 February 1997
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Colmenares P.J.
Almeida R.
Squitieri E.
Universidad Simón Bolivar
Publisher(s)
Elsevier
Abstract
In this paper we derive analytical expressions for the optical susceptibility of a two-level system immersed in a thermal bath and interacting with an external electromagnetic field, where both of them are considered as noise sources. The dynamics of the system is described by a set of optical stochastic Bloch equations. The noise sources are modeled as Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes. The optical stochastic Bloch equations are perturbatively solved up to second order in the external field. We found that each noise affects the dynamics in a different manner. Thus, at first order, the bath modifies the transverse relaxation time, whereas the effect of a random field can only be appreciated if the expansion is calculated up to second order, where correlations begin to be important.
Start page
33
End page
38
Volume
390
Issue
March 1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0002656328
Source
Journal of Molecular Structure: THEOCHEM
ISSN of the container
01661280
Sponsor(s)
R.A. and P.J.C. acknowledge the financial support of CDCIIT of the Universidad de 10s Andes (Grant C-723-95-08-A). The authors thank the reviewer for his useful comments.
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