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CM Bowden

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PubMed2000

Effects of local fields on spontaneous emission in dielectric media

The local-field renormalization of the spontaneous emission rate in a dielectric is explicitly obtained from a fully microscopic quantum-electrodynamical, many-body derivation of Langevin-Bloch operator equations for two-level atoms embedded in an absorptive and dispersive, linear dielectric host. We find that the dielectric local-field enhancement of the spontaneous emission rate is smaller than indicated by previous studies.

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Femtosecond pulse propagation in air: variational analysis

We use a variational method to study the phenomenon of intense femtosecond pulse propagation in air. This method allows us to obtain a semianalytical solution to the problem in which a wide range of initial conditions can be studied. In addition, it provides a simple physical interpertation, where the problem is reduced to an analogous problem of a particle moving in a potential well. Different types of possible solutions are considered, with focus upon the main physical interpretations. The results recapture at least qualitatively some of the major experimental observations, and previous numerical simulations.

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