Phenomenological approach to introduce damping effects on radiation   field states
  In this work we propose an approach to deal with radiation field states which incorporates damping effects at zero temperature. By using some well known results on dissipation of a cavity field state, obtained by standard ab-initio methods, it was possible to infer through a phenomenological way the explicit form for the evolution of the state vector for the whole system: the cavity-field plus reservoir. This proposal turns out to be of extreme convenience to account for the influence of the reservoir over the cavity field.   To illustrate the universal applicability of our approach we consider the attenuation effects on cavity-field states engineering. A proposal to maximize the fidelity of the process is presented. 
N. G. de Almeida, P. B. Ramos, R. M. Serra, and M. H. Y. Moussa   (Departamento de Fisica, UFSCar, Sao Carlos, SP, Brazil)