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On interpretation of the Dicke effect

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It is shown that the Dicke narrowing of the Doppler profile of a spectral line is a purely classical effect, while the recoil is a quantum effect.

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  1. Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    S. G. Rautian

  2. Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia

    S. G. Rautian

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Original Russian Text © S.G. Rautian, 2007, published in Optika i Spektroskopiya, 2007, Vol. 102, No. 3, pp. 357–359.

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Rautian, S.G. On interpretation of the Dicke effect. Opt. Spectrosc. 102, 315–317 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0030400X07030010

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