Microscopic Theory of the Photon Recoil of an Atom in a Dielectric

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2006-05-29

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0605242v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

15 pages, 2 figures. Several typos and one reference are corrected

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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 $\omega_{0}$. We also show explicitly how the energy is conserved with the photon inside the medium.

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