Quantum-phase dynamics of dimer systems interacting with a two-mode squeezed coherent field.

It is well-known that the interaction among atoms/molecules and quantized electromagnetic fields with a small number of photons provides a peculiar quantum nature, i.e., collapses and revivals in the Rabi oscillations. In this study, we investigate the intermolecular interaction (dipole-dipole interaction) effect on the collapse-revival behavior using several dimer models (composed of two kinds of two-state monomers with slightly different excitation energies) with different intermolecular distances in the presence of a two-mode squeezed coherent field, in which each mode is initially correlated. It is found that although the collapse-revival behavior is fairly overlapped and indistinct in the case of a noninteracting dimer under the present two-mode squeezed coherent field, the decrease in the intermolecular distance (the increase in the intermolecular interaction) resurrects relatively distinct collapse-revival behavior with longer collapse and revival times. By analyzing the quantum behavior from the viewpoint of the dynamics of two-mode Pegg-Barnett photon-phase distributions and off-diagonal dimer density matrices, this feature is found to closely relate to a significant change in the degree of contribution between one- and two-photon processes caused by the variation in the intermolecular interaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]