Quantum electrodynamics of accelerated atoms in free space and in cavities

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

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

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; ELECTRIC EXCITATION; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; LIGHT ABSORPTION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION;

SIMULTANEOUS EMISSION; SINGLE-MODE CAVITY; THERMAL DENSITY MATRIX; TIME-DEPENDENT DOPPLER SHIFT;

ELECTRODYNAMICS;

EID: 33747355200     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.023807     Document Type: Article

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