Intrinsic Quantum Beats of Atomic Populations and Their Nanoscale Realization Through Resonant Plasmonic Antenna

Plasmonics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-38

  Gu, Ying ^a   Wang, Luojia ^a   Ren, Pan ^a   Zhang, Junxiang ^b   Zhang, Tiancai ^b   Xu, Jing Ping ^c   Zhu, Shi Yao ^d   Gong, Qihuang ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d BEIJING COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Anisotropic vacuum; Local field distribution; Quantum beats; Quantum interference; Surface plasmon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857993193     PISSN: 15571955     EISSN: 15571963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11468-011-9272-x     Document Type: Article

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