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Bulletin of the Russian Academy of Sciences Physics

Collective spontaneous emission in a waveguide with a near-zero refractive index

Alexey Tiranov, А. А. Калачев

Published Mar 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

The optimum conditions for observing superradiance and subradiance effects in an ensemble of two-level atoms, placed in a waveguide cladding with a metamaterial with near-zero refractive index, are discussed.
DOI
10.3103/s1062873814030216

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