Photon emission from translational energy in atomic collisions: A dynamic Casimir-Polder effect

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Westlund, Per Olof ^a,b   Wennerstrom H ^b  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC COLLISIONS; CASIMIR-POLDER EFFECT; LIOUVILLE FORMALISM; PHOTON EMISSION; TRANSLATIONAL ENERGY;

ENERGY TRANSFER; PHOTONS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS;

EID: 26944446884     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.062106     Document Type: Article

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