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Thermodynamics and Superradiant Phase Transitions in a three-level Dicke Model

Quantum Physics 2017-02-01 v1 Quantum Gases

Abstract

We analyse the thermodynamic properties of a generalised Dicke model, i.e. a collection of three-level systems interacting with two bosonic modes. We show that at finite temperatures the system undergoes first-order phase transitions only, which is in contrast to the zero-temperature case where a second-order phase transition exist as well. We discuss the free energy and prominent expectation values. The limit of vanishing temperature is discussed as well.

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@article{arxiv.1610.08051,
  title  = {Thermodynamics and Superradiant Phase Transitions in a three-level Dicke Model},
  author = {Mathias Hayn and Tobias Brandes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08051},
  year   = {2017}
}