Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2011-10-18
Physics
Quantum Physics
5 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
The energy spectrum of Dicke Hamiltonians with and without the rotating wave approximation for arbitrary atom-number is obtained analytically with the variational method, in which the effective pseudo-spin Hamiltonian resulted from the expectation value in the boson-field coherent state is diagonalized by the spin-coherent-state transformation. In addition to the ground-state energy an excited macroscopic quantum-state is found corresponding to the south-and-north-pole gauges of the spin-coherent states respectively. Our results of ground-state energies in exact agreement with various approaches show that these models exhibit a zero-temperature quantum phase transition of second-order for any number of atoms, which however was commonly considered as a phenomenon of the thermodynamic limit with the atom-number tending to infinite. The critical behavior of geometric phase is analyzed, which displays no singularity at the critical point.
Lian Jinling
Liang Jing-Qiu
Zhang Yuanwei
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