Cooperative spontaneous emission of N atoms: Many-body eigenstates, the effect of virtual lamb shift processes, and analogy with radiation of N classical oscillators

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Svidzinsky, Anatoly A ^a   Chang, Jun Tao ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^a,b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC CLOUDS; ATOMIC ENSEMBLE; CLASSICAL OSCILLATORS; DECAY CHANNELS; DECAY RATE; EIGEN FUNCTION; EIGENSTATES; EIGENVALUES; EXACT ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; EXPONENTIAL DECAYS; HARMONIC OSCILLATORS; LAMB SHIFTS; LONG-TIME DYNAMICS; MANY-BODY; POWER-LAW BEHAVIOR; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL TREATMENTS; SINGLE ATOMS; SINGLE PHOTONS; TRAPPED STATE; TWO-LEVEL ATOM; VIRTUAL PROCESS;

DECAY (ORGANIC); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPONTANEOUS EMISSION;

ATOMS;

EID: 77952396197     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.053821     Document Type: Article

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