An analytical variational method for the ground state of the biased quantum Rabi model in the ultra-strong coupling regime is presented. This analytical variational method can be obtained by a unitary transformation or alternatively by assuming the form of ground state wave function. The key point of the method is to introduce a variational parameter λ, which can be determined by minimizing the energy functional. Using this method, we calculate physical observables with high accuracy in comparison with the numerical exact one. Our method evidently improves the results from the widely used general rotating-wave approximation (GRWA) in both qualitative and quantitative ways.

In order to obtain the ground state of the biased quantum Rabi model in the ultrastrong coupling regime, a generalized squeezing rotating-wave approximation method including the displacement and the squeezing transformations is proposed in this work. While considering the deformation of the oscillator state, our method evidently improves the generalized variational method. The analyses of a few physical quantities show that our method works well especially in the ultrastrong coupling and large atomic frequency regime.

We present an analytical method for the two-qubit quantum Rabi model. While still operating in the frame of the generalized rotating-wave approximation (GRWA), our method further embraces the idea of introducing variational parameters. The optimal value of the variational parameter is determined by minimizing the energy function of the ground state. Comparing with numerical exact results, we show that our method evidently improves the accuracy of the conventional GRWA in calculating fundamental physical quantities, such as energy spectra, mean photon number, and dynamics. Interestingly, the accuracy of our method allows us to reproduce the asymptotic behavior of mean photon number in large frequency ratio for the ground state and investigate the quasiperiodical structure of the time evolution, which are incapable of being predicted by the GRWA. The applicable parameter ranges cover the ultrastrong coupling regime, which will be helpful to recent experiments. * An adiabatic approximation has been proposed for the two-qubit quantum Rabi model [29]. It plays well when arXiv:1904.09567v1 [quant-ph]

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