Enhancing acceleration radiation from ground-state atoms via cavity quantum electrodynamics

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 24, 2003, Pages

  Scully, Marlan O ^a,b   Kocharovsky, Vitaly V ^a,c   Belyanin, Alexey ^a,c   Fry, Edward ^a   Capasso, Federico ^d  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ATOMS; CAVITY RESONATORS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRODYNAMICS; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; MICROWAVES; POLARIZATION; RADIATION;

CAVITY QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS; THERMAL DENSITY MATRIX; UNRUH EFFECT;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0942268268     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.243004     Document Type: Article

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