- 1Instituto Politécnico Nacional, ESFM, Departamento de Física, Mexico City, Mexico
- 2Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Electrónica, Puebla, Mexico
We employ a squeeze operator transformation approach to solve the anisotropic quantum Rabi model that includes a diamagnetic term. By carefully adjusting the amplitude of the diamagnetic term, we demonstrate that the anisotropic Rabi model with the
1 Introduction
The interaction of atoms with cavity fields [1-3] is of great importance not only because of the fundamental questions that may be answered, but also because of the possible technological applications [4-6] as entanglement, at the core of such interaction, is the key ingredient of quantum information processing.
When analyzing this interaction several approximations are done, namely, the diamagnetic term [7-11] is dropped, the dipole and rotating wave approximations are made and the interaction with environments [12] is not considered, this is, studies are focused on high-
It has been shown that the diamagnetic term may be of importance in the deep-strong-coupling (DSC) and ultra-strong-coupling regimes (USC) [9]. In the atom-field interaction, the diamagnetic term is usually dropped as it is a term that it is of the order of counter rotating terms [8]. However, in other regimes the impact of the diamagnetic term is non-negligible and it may become dominant in the DSC regime [9, 11].
Generalizations of the quantum Rabi model, such as the anisotropic quantum Rabi model [18-20], have been studied. In particular it has been shown the existence of entanglement [20] and antibounching-to-bounching transitions of photons [19].
In this contribution we show that an anisotropic Rabi model that includes the diamagnetic term may be reduced, by using a transformation that involves the squeeze operator [21], to the Jaynes-Cummings [1] and anti-Jaynes-Cummings models [22]. These kind of systems have been shown to have partner Hamiltonians in the theory of supersymmetry (SUSY) [23, 24] that allows the connection of physical models via supersymmetric operators, i.e., mapping the corresponding Hilbert spaces.
2 The anisotropic quantum Rabi model
The Hamiltonian for the anisotropic quantum Rabi model, including the diamagnetic term, can be expressed as (with
where
To eliminate the residual diamagnetic term
Applying the transformation
By imposing the condition
Thus, the squeezing transformation eliminates the residual diamagnetic term, thereby simplifying the system to the anisotropic quantum Rabi model. In the special case where
2.1 Jaynes-Cummings model
Once the Hamiltonian in Equation 2 is established, we fix the squeezing parameter
where the effective frequency
For the specific case where
This condition, together with the inequality
These results demonstrate how the squeezing transformation not only removes the diamagnetic term but also establishes a direct connection between the physical parameters of the system and the mathematical structure of the Jaynes-Cummings model.
Finally, to establish the complete relationship between the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian and the Hamiltonian of the anisotropic quantum Rabi model with the diamagnetic term, Equation 1, for the case
where the eigenvalues
with
2.2 Anti- Jaynes-Cummings model
On the other hand, starting from Equation 2 and considering the parameter region defined by
where
Consequently, in a manner analogous to the previous case, and in addition to Equation 3, which eliminates the diamagnetic term, the anti-Jaynes-Cummings model can be recovered within the parameter region defined by
Finally, to establish the complete relationship between the anti-Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian and the Hamiltonian of the anisotropic quantum Rabi model with the diamagnetic term, Equation 1, for the case
where
3 Results and discussion
In this section, we analyze the eigenvalues and atomic inversion for the anisotropic quantum Rabi model with diamagnetic term in the two distinct parameter regimes: (a)
The eigenvalues
Figure 1 displays the first energy levels for both the (a) Jaynes-Cummings and (b) anti-Jaynes-Cummings models as a function of the coupling parameter

Figure 1. Energy levels of the anisotropic quantum Rabi model for the first ten states
To conclude this section, we present an analysis of the atomic inversion for the anisotropic quantum Rabi model with diamagnetic term in the two distinct coupling regimes. The atomic inversion, denoted as
The time evolution operator for the anisotropic quantum Rabi model with diamagnetic term is expressed as:
The evolution operators corresponding to the Jaynes-Cummings and anti-Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonians are given by:
respectively. The matrix elements of the evolution operators are explicitly given by:
where
with
Figure 2 illustrates the time evolution of the atomic inversion
where
with

Figure 2. Dynamics of the atomic inversion in the anisotropic quantum Rabi model. The figure illustrates the temporal evolution of the atomic inversion

Figure 3. Dynamics of the anisotropic quantum Rabi model in two distinct coupling regimes: (a) Jaynes-Cummings regime
Finally, in Figure 3, we show the probability distribution
where
where
4 Conclusion
It has been demonstrated that, by judiciously tuning the diamagnetic amplitude, the anisotropic quantum Rabi model can be reduced to either the Jaynes-Cummings model or the anti-Jaynes-Cummings model through the application of a squeezing transformation. Specifically, when the condition
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Author contributions
JA-C: Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. IR-P: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. AZ-S: Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing. HM-C: Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review and editing.
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Keywords: Rabi model, diamagnetic term, squeeze operator, transformations, anti-JCM
Citation: Anaya-Contreras JA, Ramos-Prieto I, Zúñiga-Segundo A and Moya-Cessa HM (2025) The anisotropic quantum Rabi model with diamagnetic term. Front. Phys. 13:1568407. doi: 10.3389/fphy.2025.1568407
Received: 29 January 2025; Accepted: 24 April 2025;
Published: 13 May 2025.
Edited by:
Nilakantha Meher, SRM University, IndiaReviewed by:
Saikat Sur, Weizmann Institute of Science, IsraelLoris Maria Cangemi, University of Naples Federico II, Italy
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