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Spontaneous emission of an excited two-level atom without both rotating-wave and Markovian approximation

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The spontaneous emission of an excited atom is analyzed by quantum stochastic trajectory approach without both rotating-wave approximation and Markovian approximation. The atom finite size effect is also taken into account. We show by an example that the correction due to the counter-rotating wave term is rather small, even for the largest atomic number of real nuclei.

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  1. Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R. China, , , , , , CN

    C.-Q. Cao & C.-G. Yu

  2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208-3112, USA, , , , , , US

    H. Cao

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Received 10 July 2002 / Received in final form 12 November 2002 Published online 4 February 2003

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Cao, CQ., Yu, CG. & Cao, H. Spontaneous emission of an excited two-level atom without both rotating-wave and Markovian approximation. Eur. Phys. J. D 23, 279–284 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2003-00033-9

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