Scattering of Photons in a Homogeneous Electromagnetic Field

Igor Anatol'evich Batalin, Anatoly E. Shabad

E. Wolf, John T. Foley

A theory is developed, valid within the accuracy of the first-order Born approximation, of the scattering of electromagnetic fields that applies under much more general conditions than do the current theories. The incident field is assumed to be statistically homogeneous and stationary, of arbitrary state of coherence, of arbitrary state of polarization, and to have arbitrary spectrum. The medium is assumed to be linear and spatially and temporally random, with the randomness being characterized by an ensemble that is statistically homogeneous, isotropic, and stationary. The analysis is not restricted to scattering from a medium in thermal equilibrium and applies in both off-resonance and near-resonance regions of the medium.

Lazar Mayants

N. H. Abd El-Wahab, Ahmed Salah

We study the interaction between a one-mode electromagnetic field and a two-photon Jaynes-Cummings model in the presence of the classical homogenous gravitational field with an added Kerr-like medium when the atom is prepared initially in the momentum eigenstate. The wave function is calculated by using the Schrodinger equation for a coherent electromagnetic field and an atom in the excited state. The influence of the Kerr-like medium and the classical homogenous gravitational field on the properties of the entropy of the field is examined. Keywords: two-level atom; Kerr-like medium; gravitational field; entropy .

K. T. Hecht

A.A. Varfolomeev