Numerical study of squeezing in the Jaynes-Cummings model with and without the rotating wave approximation

Abstract

Dipole squeezing in the Jaynes-Cummings model with and without the rotating wave approximation (RWA) has been numerically studied when restricted to the following initial conditions: the field in the superposition of the vacuum and one-photon state, and the atom in the ground state. Numerical results show that even if under the condition for which the RWA is considered to be valid, there is a significant effect caused by the virtual-photon field on the dipole squeezing; in the cases of sufficiently strong coupling of the atom-field interaction, the interference between the virtual-photon processes and the real-photon processes quenches the dipole squeezing.