Spurious velocity dependence of free-space spontaneous emission
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 47 (1) , 671-673
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.47.671
Abstract
It is shown that the standard calculation of the free-space spontaneous-emission rate leads to a spurious velocity dependence if the atomic motion is included nonrelativistically. The unphysical terms are of first order in v/c, akin to the nonrelativistic Doppler shift.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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