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URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium

Single and multiple atomic dipole radiators

Aiyin Y. Liu, Tian Xia, Lingling Meng, Weng Cho Chew

Published Aug 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

The radiation from dipole atoms situated in a general loss-less electromagnetic environment is studied in a fully quantized model by direct factorization of the Hamiltonian. The factorized Hamiltonian feature coupled excitations of the atoms and fields.
DOI
10.23919/ursigass.2017.8105074

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