2004/10/26 by Tom Savels, Savels, Tom, Allard P. Mosk +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn) #FOS: Physical sciences #Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #cond-mat.dis-nn
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0410661
openalex publication_date 2004/10/26 · arxiv created 2005/01/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We provide analytic solutions of the optical Bloch equations for a two-level system interacting with a broadband light field. We will focus on two special examples: incident light with a Lorentzian spectral density and the limit of incident monochromatic light. The results are used to obtain an expression for the nonlinear polarizability of a two-level atom irradiated by a wave with a Lorentzian spectral density.