Rotating-wave approximation: Difference between revisions

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-\hbar\Omega^*e^{i\omega_Lt}|\text{g}\rangle\langle\text{e}|.

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Another critiracriterion for rotating wave approximation is the weak coupling condition, that is, the Rabi frequency should be much less than the transition frequency.<ref name="WuYang2007"/>

At this point the rotating wave approximation is complete. A common first step beyond this is to remove the remaining time dependence in the Hamiltonian via another unitary transformation.