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Dissipative Systems in Quantum Optics - Resonance Fluorescence, Optical Bistability, Superfluorescence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
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Dissipative Systems in Quantum Optics - Resonance Fluorescence, Optical Bistability, Superfluorescence (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1982)
Series: Topics in Current Physics, 27
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In studying the radiation-matter interaction, one can take two
different approaches. The first is typical of spectroscopy: one
considers the interaction between radi ation and a single atom, i.
e., one studies those phenomena in which the presence of other
atoms is irrelevant. The other attitude consists, in contrast, in
studying those phenomena which arise just from the simultaneous
presence of many atoms. In fact, all the atoms interact with the
same electromagnetic field; under suitable conditions, this
situation creates strong atom-atom correlations, which in turn give
rise to a cooperative behavior of the system as a whole.
Cooperative means that the overall behavior is quite different from
the superposition of the effects arising from single atoms and is
completely unpredictable if one neglects the coup ling between the
atoms induced by their common electromagnetic field. This book
contains five complete and up-to-date contributions on the theory
and experiments of three coherence effects in radiation-matter
interaction: resonance fluorescences, optical bistability, and
superfluorescence. They have raised in creasing interest in recent
years from both a fundamental and an applicative view point. Even
if their phenomenology appears completely different, these effects
be long in the same book because they are striking examples of open
systems driven far from thermal equilibrium, as those considered in
Haken's synergetics and in Prigogine's theory of dissipative
structures. This aspect is discussed in the in troducting chapter,
in which we outline the basic physics and the essential features
which unify these three effects."
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