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The rotating wave approximation is an approximation used in atom optics and magnetic resonance. In this approximation, terms in a Hamiltonian which oscillate rapidly are neglected. This is a valid approximation when the applied electromagnetic radiation is near resonance with an atomic transition, and the intensity is low. Explicitly, terms in the Hamiltonians which oscillate with frequencies are neglected, while terms which oscillate with frequencies are kept, where is the light frequency and is a transition frequency. The name of the approximation stems from the form of the Hamiltonian in the interaction picture, as shown below. By switching to this picture the evolution of an atom due to the corresponding atomic Hamiltonian is absorbed into the system ket, leaving only the evolution due to the interaction of the atom with the light field to consider. It is in this picture that the rapidly oscillating terms mentioned previously can be neglected. Since in some sense the interaction picture can be thought of as rotating with the system ket only that part of the electromagnetic wave that approximately co-rotates is kept; the counter-rotating component is discarded. == Mathematical formulation == For simplicity consider a two-level atomic system with ground and excited states and , respectively (using the Dirac bracket notation). Let the energy difference between the states be so that is the transition frequency of the system. Then the unperturbed Hamiltonian of the atom can be written as : . Suppose the atom experiences an external classical electric field of frequency , given by , e.g. a plane wave propagating in space. Then under the dipole approximation the interaction Hamiltonian between the atom and the electric field can be expressed as : , where is the dipole moment operator of the atom. The total Hamiltonian for the atom-light system is therefore The atom does not have a dipole moment when it is in an energy eigenstate, so This means that defining allows the dipole operator to be written as : (with denoting the complex conjugate). The interaction Hamiltonian can then be shown to be (see the Derivation section below) : where is the Rabi frequency and is the counter-rotating frequency. To see why the terms are called `counter-rotating' consider a unitary transformation to the interaction or Dirac picture where the transformed Hamiltonian is given by : where is the detuning between the light field and the atom. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rotating wave approximation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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