Path integral approach to the full Dicke model

M. Aparicio Alcalde and B.M. Pimentel

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2011, vol. 390, issue 20, 3385-3396

Abstract: The full Dicke model describes a system of N identical two level-atoms coupled to a single mode quantized bosonic field. The model considers rotating and counter-rotating coupling terms between the atoms and the bosonic field, with coupling constants g1 and g2, for each one of the coupling terms, respectively. We study finite temperature properties of the model using the path integral approach and functional methods. In the thermodynamic limit, N→∞, the system exhibits phase transition from normal to superradiant phase, at some critical values of temperature and coupling constants. We distinguish between three particular cases, the first one corresponds to the case of rotating wave approximation, where g1≠0 and g2=0, the second one corresponds to the case of g1=0 and g2≠0, in these two cases the model has a continuous symmetry. The last one, corresponds to the case of g1≠0 and g2≠0, where the model has a discrete symmetry. The phase transition in each case is related to the spontaneous breaking of its respective symmetry. For each one of these three particular cases, we find the asymptotic behaviour of the partition function in the thermodynamic limit, and the collective spectrum of the system in the normal and the superradiant phase. For the case of rotating wave approximation, and also the case of g1=0 and g2≠0, in the superradiant phase, the collective spectrum has a zero energy value, corresponding to the Goldstone mode associated to the continuous symmetry breaking of the model. Our analysis and results are valid in the limit of zero temperature, β→∞, in which, the model exhibits a quantum phase transition.

Keywords: Dicke model; Collective excitations; Quantum phase transition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.05.018

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