Abstract
The decay rate of an excited atom in the presence of a ground state atom is calculated using a dynamical operator approach. It is found that the rate is dependent on the interatomic distance in a manner exactly paralleling classical interacting dipoles. The present treatment in terms of dipole fields, rather than the usual Schrödinger photon-exchange picture, however, removed the difficulty in interpreting the results.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 330-334 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Optics Communications |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Mar 1977 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
- Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering