Quantum Theory of Self-Induced Transparency
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-10-28 v1 Condensed Matter
Abstract
It is known that classical electromagnetic radiation at a frequency in resonance with energy splittings of atoms in a dielectric medium can be described using the classical sine-Gordon equation. In this paper we quantize the electromagnetic field and compute quantum corrections to the classical results by using known results from the sine-Gordon quantum field theory. In particular, we compute the intensity of spontaneously emitted radiation using the thermodynamic Bethe ansatz with boundary interactions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-th/9505086,
title = {Quantum Theory of Self-Induced Transparency},
author = {Andre LeClair},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9505086},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
15 pages, one figure, uses harvmac and epsf