Space-time description of photon emission from an atom

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 022111-022111

  Keller, Ole ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FUNCTIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ATOMIC CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRIC DIPOLE TRANSITION; PHOTON EMISSION; QUANTIZATION; WAVE FUNCTION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0342409412     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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