Manifestation of classical wave delays in a fully quantized model of the scattering of a single photon

Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical Optics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 85-94

  Purdy, Thomas ^a,c   Taylor, Daniel R ^b,d   Ligare, Martin ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous dispersion; Causality; Delay; Group velocity; Light; Optical phase; Phase velocity; Photon; Pulse propagation; Quantized field; Quantum; Scattering

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTONS; SCATTERING; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

CLASSICAL WAVE DELAYS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0037297796     PISSN: 14644266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1464-4266/5/1/312     Document Type: Article

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