Anisotropic vacuum-induced interference in decay channels

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5500-5503

  Agarwal, G S ^a,b  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUORESCENCE; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MOLECULES; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; TENSORS;

ANISOTROPIC VACUUM INDUCED INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; TWO PHOTON EXCITATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0033689590     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5500     Document Type: Article

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