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Past exam of the laser science and quantum information processing course of the University of Oxford 2017 6 b Solution by
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The total excitation operator commutes with the Hamiltonian. Each sector with is therefore spanned by , and no term connects it to a sector of different excitation number.
In that ordered basis, with the source's Rabi detuning ,The first term is the common sector energy; the remaining diagonal entries record the bare Rabi detuning and the off-diagonal terms exchange the excitation.
The isolated ground sector of the Jaynes-Cummings model is an important exception to a statement that the entire Hilbert space consists of such pairs: has no partner and is annihilated by both interaction terms. It is a one-dimensional invariant sector with energy . The full decomposition is this one-dimensional sector plus all the two-dimensional sectors above.
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