Volume 38, Number 1, 277-288, DOI: 10.1023/A:1026653712169

Spatially Sequential Turn-On of Spontaneous Emission from an Atomic Wave Packet

Marek Czachor and Li You

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Abstract

We discuss a simple example demonstrating thatspontaneous emission fromldquospace-time-superposedrdquo atomiccenter-of-mass wave packets is nontrivially andtime-dependent modified with respect to the standard dipole pattern typical ofldquospace-superposedrdquo wave packets. Ourapproach provides an approximate description of anonsimultaneous interaction of an electromagnetic fieldwith different parts of a wave packet.

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