Zhao, HJ (reprint author), Shanxi Normal Univ, Sch Phys & Informat Sci, Linfen 041004, Peoples R China.
部门归属:
[Zhao, H. J.] Shanxi Normal Univ, Sch Phys & Informat Sci, Linfen 041004, Peoples R China; [Du, M. L.] Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Theoret Phys, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China
英文摘要:
A method of images is applied to study the spontaneous emission of an atom inside a metallic wedge with an opening angle of pi/N, where N is an arbitrary positive integer. We show that the method of images gives a rate formula consistent with that from quantum electrodynamics. Using the method of images, we show the correspondence between the oscillations in the spontaneous emission rate and the closed orbits of emitted photon going away and returning to the atom inside the wedge. The closed orbits can be readily constructed using the method of images, and they are also extracted from the spontaneous emission rate.
Zhao, HJ,Du, ML. Spatial oscillations in the spontaneous emission rate of an atom inside a metallic wedge[J]. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS,2011,44(2):25401.
