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Atoms and negative ions interacting with laser photons yield a coherent source of photoelectrons. Applying external fields to photoelectrons gives rise to interesting and valuable interference phenomena. We analyze the spatial distribution…

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Classical Electrodynamics is not a consistent theory because of its field inadequate behaviour in the vicinity of their sources. Its problems with the electron equation of motion and with non-integrable singularity of the electron self…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Manoelito M. de Souza

The interaction of a single-photon wave packet with an initially excited two-level atom in free space is studied in semiclassical and quantum approaches. It is shown that the final state of the field does not contain doubly occupied modes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. V. Elyutin

We systematically study the interaction between two quantized optical fields and a cyclic atomic ensemble driven by a classic optical field. This so-called atomic cyclic ensemble consists of three-level atoms with Delta-type transitions due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yong Li , Li Zheng , Yu-xi Liu , C. P. Sun

We present a new theory of atom-atom dispersion interaction in the presence of electromagnetic fields. The theory takes into account the absorption and emission of virtual photons leading to the resonance contributions to the interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Yury Sherkunov

This simple analysis shows that photon-like particles are not strange within the conceptual framework of the classical electromagnetic field theory. Circular polarized waves lead to photons. Thus, light quantum hypothesis is not necessary.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Srecko Botric , Krunoslav Ljolje

The interaction between an atom and the quantized electromagnetic field depends on the position of the atom. Then the atom experiences a force which is the minus gradient of this interaction. Through the Heisenberg equations of motion and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-11 Li Ge

The least action principle occupies a central part in contemporary physics. Yet, as far as classical field theory is concerned, it may not be as essential as generally thought. We show with three detailed examples of classical interacting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-02 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Intense light-matter interaction largely relies on the use of high-power light sources, creating fields comparable to, or even stronger than, the field keeping the electrons bound in atoms. Under such conditions, the interaction induces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 P. Stammer , J. Rivera-Dean , P. Tzallas , M. F. Ciappina , M. Lewenstein

Quantum optics and classical optics have coexisted for nearly a century as two distinct, self-consistent descriptions of light. What influences there were between the two domains all tended to go in one direction, as concepts from classical…

Optics · Physics 2018-01-01 Xiao-Feng Qian , A. Nick Vamivakas , Joseph H. Eberly

The interaction between an atomic ensemble and a light mode in a high-finesse optical cavity can easily reach the strong-coupling regime, where quantum effects dominate. In this regime, the interaction can be used to generate both…

It is shown that the vacuum state of weakly interacting quantum field theories can be described, in the Heisenberg picture, as a linear combination of randomly distributed incoherent paths that obey classical equations of motion with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Ram Brustein , David H. Oaknin

The semiclassical theory of light-matter interactions describes the interaction between a classical electromagnetic field with a quantum mechanical two-level system.We show that the quantum mechanical two-level system can be modeled by a…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-18 Martin Frimmer , Lukas Novotny

The purpose of this article is to show that the standard method of introducing the quantum description of the electromagnetic field -- by canonical field quantization -- is not the only one. We have chosen instead as the starting point the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-30 Iwo Bialynicki-Birula , Zofia Bialynicka-Birula

Spontaneous emission of the quantum system driven by a high intensity classical laser field is analyzed. The study is based on the accurate consideration of quantum system interaction with vacuum quantized field modes in the first order of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-01-23 A. V. Bogatskaya , E. A. Volkova , A. M. Popov

For relativistic energies the small angle classical cross section for scattering on a Coulomb potential agrees with the first Born approximation for quantum cross section for scalar particle only in the leading term. The disagreement in…

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The quantum theory of the electromagnetic field uncovered that classical forms of light were indeed produced by distinct superpositions of nonclassical multiphoton wavepackets. Specifically, partially coherent light represents the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Riley B. Dawkins , Mingyuan Hong , Chenglong You , Omar S. Magana-Loaiza

We investigate the dispersion relations for light coupled to one-dimensional ensembles of atoms with different level schemes. The unifying feature of all the considered setups is that the forward and backward propagating quantum fields are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Ivan Iakoupov , Johan R. Ott , Darrick E. Chang , Anders S. Sørensen

We show that quantum mechanics can be constructed as a classical field theory that correctly describes all basic quantum effects. We construct the self-consistent Maxwell-Pauli theory, from which the correct spontaneous emission spectrum of…

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