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We consider the theory of spontaneous emission for a random medium of stationary two-level atoms. We investigate the dynamics of the field and atomic probability amplitudes for a one-photon state of the system. At long times and large…

Optics · Physics 2021-04-27 Joseph Kraisler , John C Schotland

We theoretically study a system composed by a waveguide and a moving quantum emitter in the single excitation subspace, treating the emitter motional degree of freedom quantum mechanically. We first characterize single-photon scattering off…

The spontaneous decay rates of an excited atom placed near a dielectric cylinder are investigated. A special attention is paid to the case when the cylinder radius is small in comparison with radiation wavelength (nanofiber or photonic…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Klimov , M. Ducloy

Expression for the probability of the spontaneous emission of high-order harmonics when the emitter phases are synchronized and are obtained in the region where the multiphoton approximation is applicable to the description of the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-12 K. V. Ivanyan

The usual computation of the spontaneous emission uses a mixture of classical and quantum postulates. A purely classical computation shows that a source of electromagnetic field absorbs light in the eigenmode it is able to emit. Thus in an…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jacques Moret-Bailly

We present a fully quantum-electrodynamical formalism suitable to evaluate the spontaneous emission rate and pattern from a dipole embedded in a non-absorbing and lossless multilayer dielectric structure. In the model here developed the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-12-26 Celestino Creatore , Lucio Claudio Andreani

In waveguide quantum electrodynamics systems, atomic radiation emission is shaped by the photonic environment and collective atom interactions, offering promising applications in quantum technologies. In particular, atom-photon bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Stefano Longhi

In this paper we consider an initially excited two-level system coupled to a monomode cavity, and compute exact expressions for the spectra spontaneously emitted by each system in the general case where they have arbitrary linewidths and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexia Auffèves , Benjamin Besga , Jean-Michel Gérard , Jean-Philippe Poizat

In quantum field theory it is believed that the spontaneous decay of excited atomic or molecular level is due to the interaction with continuum of field modes. Besides, the atom makes a transition from upper level to lower one so that the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-22 E. A. Ianovich

We develop a self-consistent finite element method to study spontaneous emission at nanoscale proximity of plasmonic waveguides. In the model, it is assumed that only one guided mode is dominatingly excited by the quantum emitter. With such…

We present a formalism for studying the influence of dispersive and absorbing dielectric bodies on a radiating atom in the framework of quantization of the phenomenological Maxwell equations for given complex permittivities of the bodies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefan Scheel , Ludwig Knoell , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We evaluate the probability of (de-)excitation and photon emission from a neutral, moving, non-relativistic atom, coupled to the quantum electromagnetic field and in the presence of a thin, perfectly conducting plane ("mirror"). These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 César D. Fosco , Fernando C. Lombardo , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

A method of images is applied to study the spontaneous emission of an atom inside a metallic wedge with an opening angle of $\pi/N$, where N is an arbitrary positive integer. We show the method of images gives a rate formula consistent with…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 H. J. Zhao , M. L. Du

Within the frame of quantum optics we analyze the properties of spontaneous emission of two-level atom in media with indefinite permittivity tensor where the geometry of the dispersion relation is characterized by an ellipsoid or a…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-06 Zheng Liu , Wei Li , Xunya Jiang

Semiconductor's energy band and its degeneracy are altered when an external magnetic field varies, analogously to the appearance of Landau levels. Such alternation leads to the variation of energy levels and thus quantum-mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 She-Sheng Xue

We investigate the quantum electrodynamics of a single two-level atom located at the focus of a parabolic cavity. We first work out the modifications of the spontaneous emission induced by the presence of this boundary in the optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-16 G. Alber , J. Z. Bernád , M. Stobińska , L. L. Sánchez-Soto , G. Leuchs

On purpose to establish the differences in probabilities of spontaneous radiative emission of an atom in a free space and in a nonuniform space with a nanospheroid the field strength E and the density of states rho_E of the mode n_10 of a…

Optics · Physics 2011-02-03 Vitaly S. Zuev

We theoretically investigate the spontaneous emission of a point--like dipolar emitter located near a two--dimensional (2D) plasmonic waveguide of arbitrary form. We invoke an explicite link with the density of modes of the waveguide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-31 J. Barthes , G. Colas des Francs , A. Bouhelier , J-C. Weeber , A. Dereux

We investigate spontaneous emission of a two-level atom with an arbitrarily polarized electric dipole in front of a flat dielectric surface. We treat the general case where the atomic dipole matrix element is a complex vector, that is, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Fam Le Kien , A. Rauschenbeutel

We investigate spontaneous photon emission and absorption processes of two two-level atoms trapped close to the focal points of an ellipsoidal cavity, thereby taking into account the full multimode scenario. In particular, we calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Gernot Alber , Nils Trautmann