Non-exponential spontaneous decay in cavities and waveguides
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Vol. 21 (2) , L9-L14
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/21/2/003
Abstract
The authors show that spontaneous decay of atoms interacting with reservoirs, which have a frequency-dependent photon mode density, not necessarily concentrated over a narrow frequency range, may become non-exponential.Keywords
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