Microscopic Theory of the Photon Recoil of an Atom in a Dielectric
| dc.creator | Fu, Hao | |
| dc.creator | Berman, P. R. | |
| dc.date | 2006-05-29 | |
| dc.date | 2006-10-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T07:15:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T07:15:26Z | |
| dc.description | An atom recoils when it undergoes spontaneous decay. In this paper we present a microscopic calculation of the recoil of a source atom imbedded in a dielectric medium. We find that the source atom recoils with the canonical photon momentum $n\hbar k_{0,}$ where $n$ is the index of refraction and $\hbar k_{0}$ is the photon momentum calculated at the source atom atomic frequency $ω_{0}$. We also show explicitly how the energy is conserved with the photon inside the medium. | |
| dc.description | 15 pages, 2 figures. Several typos and one reference are corrected | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0605242 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0605242 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/113256 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Microscopic Theory of the Photon Recoil of an Atom in a Dielectric | |
| dc.type | text |