Spontaneous conversion from virtual to real photons in the ultrastrong-coupling regime

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 110, Issue 24, 2013, Pages

  Stassi, R ^a   Ridolfo, A ^b   Di Stefano, O ^a   Hartmann, M J ^b   Savasta, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL CASIMIR EFFECT; EXTERNAL FORCE; LIGHT-MATTER COUPLING; QUANTUM OPTICAL SYSTEMS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; SPONTANEOUS RELEASE; TIME DEPENDENT PARAMETER; VIRTUAL PHOTONS;

OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84879111589     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.243601     Document Type: Article

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