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In this contribution a cavity-QED system is investigated in which single atoms interact with a single mode of a high-Q microwave cavity. One can distinguish between two limiting cases of resonantly interacting atom-field systems. In one of those regimes, the perturbative regime, the photon storage time τcav of the cavity device is much shorter than the decay time of the excited atoms in the cavity field. This is the usual experimental situation when considering the interaction between single atoms and quantized electromagnetic fields. Important observations on perturbative cavity-QED systems include enhanced1 or inhibited2 spontaneous decay of the atoms, as well as radiative shifts of the atomic energy levels3,4,5.
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Raithel, G., Benson, O., Walther, H. (1997). Dynamics of the Micromaser Field. In: Dowling, J.P. (eds) Electron Theory and Quantum Electrodynamics. NATO ASI Series, vol 358. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0081-4_9
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