Spontaneous decay in the presence of dispersing and absorbing bodies: General theory and application to a spherical cavity

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 053804-053801

  Dung, Ho Trung ^a,b   Knöll, Ludwig ^a   Welsch, Dirk Gunnar ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; GREEN'S FUNCTION; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; PERMITTIVITY;

SPONTANEOUS DECAY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4243449175     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.62.053804     Document Type: Article

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