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TRK Sum Rule for Interacting Photons

Salvatore Savasta, Omar Di Stefano, Franco Nori

Published 2020-02-06Version 1

The Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn sum rule is a fundamental consequence of the position-momentum commutation relation for an atomic electron and it provides an important constraint on the transition matrix elements for an atom. Here we propose a TRK sum rule for electromagnetic fields which is valid even in the presence of very strong light-matter interactions and/or optical nonlinearities. While the standard TRK sum rule involves dipole matrix moments calculated between atomic energy levels (in the absence of interaction with the field), the sum rule here proposed involves expectation values of field operators calculated between general eigenstates of the interacting light-matter system. This sum rule provides constraints and guidance for the analysis of strongly interacting light-matter systems and can be used to test the validity of approximate effective Hamiltonians often used in quantum optics.

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