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We intended to show how helpful the concepts of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics are in the understanding of the phenomenon of fluorescence of an atom or ion submitted to an electromagnetic wave at the frequency of resonance between two or three quantum levels. The coherent part of the dynamics of this system is well understood and is standard quantum physics. The spontaneous decay brings randomness into this system, a phenomenon requiring statistical methods for its understanding.
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Pomeau, Y., Tran, MB. (2019). Summary, Conclusion and Appendix of Part 1. In: Statistical Physics of Non Equilibrium Quantum Phenomena. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 967. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34394-1_4
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