Optical excitation spectrum of an atom in a surface-induced potential
| dc.creator | Kien, Fam Le | |
| dc.creator | Gupta, S. Dutta | |
| dc.creator | Hakuta, K. | |
| dc.date | 2006-10-10 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:30:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:30:20Z | |
| dc.description | We study the optical excitation spectrum of an atom in the vicinity of a dielectric surface. We calculate the rates of the total scattering and the scattering into the evanescent modes. With a proper assessment of the limitations, we demonstrate the portability of the flat-surface results to an experimental situation with a nanofiber. The effect of the surface-induced potential on the excitation spectrum for free-to-bound transitions is shown to be weak. On the contrary, the effect for bound-to-bound transitions is significant leading to a large excitation linewidth, a substantial negative shift of the peak position, and a strong long tail on the negative side and a small short tail on the positive side of the field--atom frequency detuning. | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0610067 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0610067 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/118425 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Optical excitation spectrum of an atom in a surface-induced potential | |
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