QED in optically active media: Enhanced spontaneous emission and chiral, yet parity-conserving, corrections to the electron mass

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 2074-2077

  Marzlin, Karl Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DENSITY (OPTICAL); DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTRONS; LIGHT EMISSION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS;

CASIMIR EFFECT; CHIRALITY; ELECTRON MASS; FEDOROV'S MODEL; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0030127260     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.2074     Document Type: Article

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