Giant Lamb Shift in Photonic Crystals

Details Giant Lamb Shift in Photonic Crystals Giant Lamb Shift in Photonic Crystals

2004-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406183v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

12 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.073901

We obtain a general result for the Lamb shift of excited states of multi-level atoms in inhomogeneous electromagnetic structures and apply it to study atomic hydrogen in inverse-opal photonic crystals. We find that the photonic-crystal environment can lead to very large values of the Lamb shift, as compared to the case of vacuum. We also predict that the position-dependent Lamb shift should extend from a single level to a mini-band for an assemble of atoms with random distribution in space, similar to the velocity-dependent Doppler effect in atomic/molecular gases.

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