An Exact Approach to the Oscillator Radiation Process in an Arbitrarily Large Cavity

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2000-01-05

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0001009v1

J.Phys.A34:3735-3750,2001

Physics

Atomic Physics

27 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/34/18/303

Starting from a solution of the problem of a mechanical oscillator coupled to a scalar field inside a reflecting sphere of radius $R$, we study the behaviour of the system in free space as the limit of an arbitrarily large radius in the confined solution. From a mathematical point of view we show that this way of facing the problem is not equivalent to consider the system {\it a} {\it priori} embedded in infinite space. In particular, the matrix elements of the transformation turning the system to principal axis, do not tend to distributions in the limit of an arbitrarily large sphere as it should be the case if the two procedures were mathematically equivalent. Also, we introduce "dressed" coordinates which allow an exact description of the oscillator radiation process for any value of the coupling, strong or weak. In the case of weak coupling, we recover from our exact expressions the well known decay formulas from perturbation theory.

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