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Spatially sequential turn-on of spontaneous emission from an atomic wave packet

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss a simple example demonstrating that spontaneous emission from "space-time-superposed" atomic center-of-mass wave packets is nontrivially and time-dependent modified with respect to the standard dipole-pattern typical of "space-superposed" wave packets. Our approach provides an approximate description of a nonsimultaneous interaction of electromagnetic field with different parts of a wave packet.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9802059,
  title  = {Spatially sequential turn-on of spontaneous emission from an atomic wave packet},
  author = {Marek Czachor and Li You},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9802059},
  year   = {2007}
}

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to be published in Int.J.Theor.Phys.; revtex, 3 ps figures