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View SchemaResonant dipole-dipole interaction in the presence of dispersing and absorbing surroundings
| Authors | Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Knöll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0205056 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0205056 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.063810 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. A 66, 063810 (2002) |
Abstract
Within the framework of quantization of the macroscopic electromagnetic field, equations of motion and an effective Hamiltonian for treating both the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between two-level atoms and the resonant atom-field interaction are derived, which can suitably be used for studying the influence of arbitrary dispersing and absorbing material surroundings on these interactions. The theory is applied to the study of the transient behavior of two atoms that initially share a single excitation, with special emphasis on the role of the two competing processes of virtual and real photon exchange in the energy transfer between the atoms. In particular, it is shown that for weak atom-field interaction there is a time window, where the energy transfer follows a rate regime of the type obtained by ordinary second-order perturbation theory. Finally, the resonant dipole-dipole interaction is shown to give rise to a doublet spectrum of the emitted light for weak atom-field interaction and a triplet spectrum for strong atom-field interaction.
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"abstract": "Within the framework of quantization of the macroscopic electromagnetic\nfield, equations of motion and an effective Hamiltonian for treating both the\nresonant dipole-dipole interaction between two-level atoms and the resonant\natom-field interaction are derived, which can suitably be used for studying the\ninfluence of arbitrary dispersing and absorbing material surroundings on these\ninteractions. The theory is applied to the study of the transient behavior of\ntwo atoms that initially share a single excitation, with special emphasis on\nthe role of the two competing processes of virtual and real photon exchange in\nthe energy transfer between the atoms. In particular, it is shown that for weak\natom-field interaction there is a time window, where the energy transfer\nfollows a rate regime of the type obtained by ordinary second-order\nperturbation theory. Finally, the resonant dipole-dipole interaction is shown\nto give rise to a doublet spectrum of the emitted light for weak atom-field\ninteraction and a triplet spectrum for strong atom-field interaction.",
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.66.063810",
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