Reversal of radiation reaction force and instability of the ground state of an atom located above the surface of an active medium

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 18, 1996, Pages 3285-3288

  Kocharovsky, V V ^a   Kocharovsky, Vl V ^a   Belyanin, A A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; INTEGRATION; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS;

DIPOLE MOMENT; GROUND STATE; RADIATION REACTION FIELD; RADIATIVE DECAY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION; TWO LEVEL ATOM;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 0030129229     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.3285     Document Type: Article

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