DYNAMICS OF THE GENERATION OF THE PURE 2-ATOM SQUEEZED STATE

Time evolution of a two-atom system damped by a broad-band squeezed va cuum is examined. We show that in the squeezed vacuum the collective a tomic levels are no longer eigenstates of the system. Diagonalizing th e density matrix of the system, we find new 'dressed' eigenstates of t he system and show that the evolution of the population of the dressed states is characterized by three different relaxation times, two of t hem strongly modified by the squeezed correlations. We find that the e ffect of the squeezed vacuum on the system appears on a time-scale lar ger than the shortest relaxation time of the system, and the relaxatio n time of the system to the pure two-atom squeezed state is strongly d ependent on the intensity N of the squeezed vacuum and increases with increasing N.