Electric dipole interaction in quantum optics
- 1 October 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 20 (4) , 1590-1592
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.20.1590
Abstract
It is pointed out that the electromagnetic interaction between an atom and a field, in which the atom is modelled as a point dipole of moment interacting with the electric field , is not strictly consistent with both quantum mechanics and Maxwell's equations. Quantum mechanics allows magnetic point dipoles but not electric point dipoles.
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