Atomic multipole relaxation rates near surfaces

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Crosse, J A ^a   Scheel, Stefan ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBING DIELECTRICS; ABSORBING SURFACE; ATOM-SURFACE DISTANCES; DECAY RATE; DYADIC GREEN'S FUNCTIONS; ELECTRIC MULTIPOLE MOMENTS; FREE SPACE; GENERAL EXPRESSION; HALF SPACES; MAGNETOELECTRIC MATERIALS; MULTIPOLE; MULTIPOLE EXPANSIONS; MULTIPOLE MOMENTS; NEAR-SURFACE; OCTUPOLE TRANSITION; QUADRUPOLE; QUADRUPOLE TRANSITION; RELAXATION RATES; SPONTANEOUS DECAY RATES; SPONTANEOUS RELAXATION;

ATOMS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; DECAY (ORGANIC); ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; SURFACES;

SURFACE RELAXATION;

EID: 67549096544     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.062902     Document Type: Article

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