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Physical Review A

Transient and steady-state behavior of collective atomic systems driven by a classical field

Lorenzo M. Narducci, D.H. Feng, Robert Gilmore, G. S. Agarwal

Published Oct 1, 1978• 73 citations
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Abstract

We analyze the transient and steady-state properties of a model system consisting of a collection of atoms interacting cooperatively and driven by a classical external field. We obtain numerical solutions for selected atomic expectation values and suggest a steady-state scaling relation.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.18.1571

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