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View SchemaFluorescence into flat and structured radiation continua: An atomic density matrix without a master equation
| Authors | Soren Bay, P. Lambropoulos, K. Molmer |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9708030 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9708030 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.2654 |
Abstract
We investigate an atomic $\Lambda$-system with one transition coupled to a laser field and a flat continuum of vacuum modes and the other transition coupled to field modes near the edge of a photonic band gap. The system requires simultaneous treatment of Markovian and non-Markovian dissipation processes, but the photonic band gap continuum can not be eliminated within a density matrix treatment. Instead we propose a formalism based on Monte-Carlo wavefunctions, and we present results relevant to an experimental characterization of a structured continuum.
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