Photonic Mode Description of the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian States

Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian provides the elemental description of a two-level system interacting with a photonic mode. In this Article, we derive an expression for the transmission response via a photonic signal that describes the hybridized states as separate photonic modes. As a result, we obtain the effective input/output couplings and the internal losses of each mode. These set the decoherence rate of the hybridized states, and provide a simple description of the strength of the response signal, that we call “visibility”, and its linewidth. In particular, the result allows us to describe a situation where the coherence increases significantly while the signal remains strongly visible in the response.