Spontaneous Emission in Chaotic Cavities
chao-dyn
2008-02-03 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Chaotic Dynamics
Abstract
The spontaneous emission rate \Gamma of a two-level atom inside a chaotic cavity fluctuates strongly from one point to another because of fluctuations in the local density of modes. For a cavity with perfectly conducting walls and an opening containing N wavechannels, the distribution of \Gamma is given by P(\Gamma) \propto \Gamma^{N/2-1}(\Gamma+\Gamma_0)^{-N-1}, where \Gamma_0 is the free-space rate. For small N the most probable value of \Gamma is much smaller than the mean value \Gamma_0.
Cite
@article{arxiv.chao-dyn/9706026,
title = {Spontaneous Emission in Chaotic Cavities},
author = {T. Sh. Misirpashaev and P. W. Brouwer and C. W. J. Beenakker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:chao-dyn/9706026},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, RevTeX, 1 figure