Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media

Dirk-Gunnar Welsch; Ho Trung Dung; Ludwig Kn\"oll; Stefan Scheel; Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

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Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media

Ho Trung Dung, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann, Ludwig Knöll, Dirk-Gunnar Welsch, Stefan Scheel

Quantum Physics · Submitted 4 Jun 2003

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The authors' main claim Results for both big and small cavities are presented, and the problem of local-field corrections within the real-cavity model is addressed.

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CitationDirk-Gunnar Welsch, Ho Trung Dung, Ludwig Kn\"oll, Stefan Scheel, Stefan Yoshi Buhmann. "Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media." arXiv:quant-ph/0306028 (2003). https://pith.science/paper/RTZAMY4C

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We present a quantization scheme for the electromagnetic field interacting with atomic systems in the presence of dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric media, including left-handed material having negative real part of the refractive index. The theory is applied to the spontaneous decay of a two-level atom at the center of a spherical free-space cavity surrounded by magnetodielectric matter of overlapping band-gap zones. Results for both big and small cavities are presented, and the problem of local-field corrections within the real-cavity model is addressed.

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We present a quantization scheme for the electromagnetic field interacting with atomic systems in the presence of dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric media, including left-handed material having negative real part of the refractive index. The theory is applied to the spontaneous decay of a two-level atom at the center of a spherical free-space cavity surrounded by magnetodielectric matter of overlapping band-gap zones. Results for both big and small cavities are presented, and the problem of local-field corrections within the real-cavity model is addressed.

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In particular, the works [ref] describe properties of the charged particle field in different dispersive media including traditional resonant medium [ref] , active medium [ref] , anisotropic medium [ref] , left-handed medium [ref] , and so-called “wire-metamaterial” [ref] .

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