Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 4 B, 2003, Pages

  Dung, Ho Trung ^a,d   Buhmann, Stefan Yoshi ^a   Knöll, Ludwig ^a   Welsch, Dirk Gunnar ^a   Scheel, Stefan ^b   Kästel, Jürgen ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c France   (Germany)

^d Vietnam National University Institute of Physics   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERMITTIVITY; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD QUANTIZATION; LEFT HANDED MEDIA; MAGNETODIELECTRIC MEDIA; SPONTANEOUS DECAY;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 11344283579     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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