Quantum interferences and the question of thermodynamic equilibrium

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 023818-023811

  Agarwal, G S ^a   Menon, Sunish ^a  

^a PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY;

HEAT BATH;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0035251367     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.023818     Document Type: Article

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