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• montechristo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I describe the atoms using a so called Lindblad master equation. The atoms are kept in this description, but the light field is eliminated using two assumptions:

  1. The coupling between the two is very weak.
  2. Correlations between the two decay so fast that this can be considered instantaneous.

  The later produces white noise.

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  • trolololol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That’s cool

    In most fields " so fast that’s instantaneous" is pretty fast, but in nuclear and quantum physics that’s a whole new level.

    What is the order of magnitude of your " too fast ”? I will invert that to state the bandwidth in Hertz.

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    • montechristo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Typical transition frequencies between two levels of an atom are 10^15Hz. The coupling between atoms and light is on the order of the decay rate at which photons are transmitted, which sits around 10^6Hz.

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