Spontaneous emission from an extended wave packet: Field correlations
- 1 May 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 53 (5) , 2983-2985
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.53.2983
Abstract
Utilizing a recently found solution to the problem of a spontaneously radiating atom with an extended center-of-mass wave function [K. Rza̧żewski and W. Żakowicz, J. Phys. B 25, L319 (1992)] it is shown, for nonrelativistic atomic velocities, that the field density matrix is a statistical mixture of parts corresponding to emission from different positions within the wave packet. © 1996 The American Physical Society.Keywords
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