In this paper, we study a Jaynes-Cummings model (JCM) with phase damping, by introducing a master equation describing phase damping under the Markovian approximation. With the help of the superoperator technique, we find an analytic solution of the master equation for a nonresonant multiphoton JCM with phase damping. We investigate the influence of phase damping on nonclassical effects in the JCM, such as revivals of the atomic inversion, oscillations of the photon-number distribution, the quadrature squeezing of the cavity field, and sub-Poissonian photon statistics. It is shown that phase damping suppresses the revivals of the atomic inversion and nonclassical effects of the cavity field in the JCM.

• Received 1 May 1996

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.56.3139