Two-atom interaction in the dynamical operator treatment

I. C. Khoo

doi:10.1016/0030-4018(77)90194-8

Two-atom interaction in the dynamical operator treatment

I. C. Khoo

Electrical Engineering

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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)
Pages (from-to)	330-334
Number of pages	5
Journal	Optics Communications
Volume	20
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0030-4018(77)90194-8
State	Published - Mar 1977

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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