Collective spontaneous emission from a line of atoms

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238091-2380919

  Clemens, J P ^a,b   Horvath, L ^a,c   Sanders, B C ^c   Carmichael, H J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

QUANTUM JUMPS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 4344599280     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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