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| Authors | Michael E. Crenshaw, Charles M. Bowden |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0004101 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0004101 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.1851 |
Abstract
The local-field renormalization of the spontaneous emission rate in a dielectric is explicitly obtained from a fully microscopic quantum-electrodynamical, many-body derivation of Langevin-Bloch operator equations for two-level atoms embedded in an absorptive and dispersive, linear dielectric host. We find that the dielectric local-field enhancement of the spontaneous emission rate is smaller than indicated by previous studies.
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