Abstract
We calculate the lifetime of the vacuum trapping state in a micromaser, using both the Monte Carlo wave-function method and an analytic approximation, and show it to be a rapidly changing function of the average number of atoms in the cavity, when this number is much smaller than one. Our method leads to a realistic simulation of experiments, allowing for different field profiles, temperatures, and atomic velocity spreads. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
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