No Cooperative Lamb Shift in Response of Thin Slab to cw Beam of Resonant Light
We review the definition of cooperative Lamb shift originally introduced by ourselves and S. R. Hartmann in 1973. We point out that the definition specified the preparation of a sample of identical two-level atoms prepared with partial excitation by a short pulse. We spell out in some detail the rea...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2022-05-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2218-2004/10/2/49 |