Collective lamb shift in single photon dicke superradiance

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2009, Pages

  Scully, Marlan O ^a,b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COUNTER-ROTATING; LAMB SHIFTS; RADIATIVE DECAYS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON ABSORPTIONS; SMALL SAMPLES; SYMMETRIC STATE; TIME EVOLUTIONS;

PARTICLE BEAMS; RADIATION; SUPERRADIANCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 64549155678     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.143601     Document Type: Article

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