PREPARATION OF NONCLASSICAL STATES OF A CAVITY FIELD BASED ON A NONLINEAR JAYNES-CUMMINGS MODEL

It is proven in this paper that some kinds of nonclassical quantum states of the cavity field, such as Schr\ddot\rm odinger cat state (amplitude cat or phase cat), sub-Poissonian photon distribution and Fock state, etc., can be generated by conditional meas urements on atoms in the two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model with a Kerr-like medium. The nonlinear constant plays the key modulation role in the preparation of the quantum states, which gives a new controllable parameter for further experi mental researches in this field.