Theory of Atomic Motion in a Resonant Electromagnetic Wave
- 25 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (26), 1788-1791
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.1788
Abstract
A new theory of atomic motion in a resonant standing or traveling electromagnetic wave is presented. It is shown that, when effects of spontaneous emission are negligible, the motion of a two-level atom in the resonant radiation is determined by two noninterfering wave functions, each of which satisfied a time-dependent Schrödinger equation with time-independent potential energy. An experiment is proposed to test the theory.Keywords
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