Physics – Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-01-14
Phys. Rev. A 55 (1997) 513
Physics
Condensed Matter
35 pages, RevTex
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.55.513
We study the interactions of a possibly dense and/or quantum degenerate gas with driving light. Both the atoms and the electromagnetic fields are represented by quantum fields throughout the analysis. We introduce a field theory version of Markov and Born approximations for the interactions of light with matter, and devise a procedure whereby certain types of products of atom and light fields may be put to a desired, essentially normal, order. In the limit of low light intensity we find a hierarchy of equations of motion for correlation functions that contain one excited-atom field and one, two, three, etc., ground state atom fields. It is conjectured that the entire linear hierarchy may be solved by solving numerically the classical equations for the coupled system of electromagnetic fields and charged harmonic oscillators. We discuss the emergence of resonant dipole-dipole interactions and collective linewidths, and delineate the limits of validity of the column density approach in terms of non-cooperative atoms by presenting a mathematical example in which this approach is exact.
Javanainen Juha
Ruostekoski Janne
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