Transient and steady-state behavior of collective atomic systems driven by a classical field

L. M. Narducci; D. H. Feng; R. Gilmore; G. S. Agarwal

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.18.1571

Transient and steady-state behavior of collective atomic systems driven by a classical field

L. M. Narducci, D. H. Feng, R. Gilmore, and G. S. Agarwal

Phys. Rev. A 18, 1571 – Published 1 October 1978

Abstract

We analyze the transient and steady-state properties of a model system consisting of a collection of atoms interacting cooperatively and driven by a classical external field. We obtain numerical solutions for selected atomic expectation values and suggest a steady-state scaling relation.