Journal of Physical Chemistry A, Vol.103, No.30, 6036-6048, 1999
Dynamics of photon phase and information entropy for a two-state molecular system interacting with amplitude- and phase-squeezed fields
From the viewpoints of photon-phase and information-entropy dynamics, we investigate the dynamical behavior of initially one-mode amplitude- and phase-squeezed photon fields interacting with a two-state molecular system. A peculiar behavior of these systems is known to be the collapses and revivals of Rabi oscillation of the molecular population. As shown in previous studies, significant differences are observed in the amplitude and the period of the collapse-revival behavior for these fields. These differences are found to be well-described by the dynamical behavior of the photon phase (the Pegg-Barnett phase and the quasiprobability (Q function) distributions). The features of these photon-phase dynamics are also found to provide significant influence on the time evolution of the information entropy of the molecule, which characterizes the degree of the entanglement between the molecule and the field.