Radiative atom-atom interactions in optically dense media: Quantum corrections to the Lorentz-Lorenz formula

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 2427-2441

  Fleischhauer, Michael ^a   Yelin, Susanne F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOM-ATOM INTERACTIONS; GAUSSIAN APPROXIMATIONS; LORENTZ-LORENTZ FORMULA; MAXWELL-BLOCH EQUATIONS;

ANISOTROPY; APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; POLARIZATION; RADIATION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0000888022     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.59.2427     Document Type: Article

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