Comment on "Resonance fluorescence near a photonic band edge: Dressed-state Monte Carlo wave-function approach"

Quang and John have, in a recent paper [Phys. Rev. A 56, 4273 (1997)], prop osed a dressed-state Monte Carlo wave-function (MCWF) approach to a laser-d riven two-level atom coupled to a structured radiation reservoir. In this C omment, we argue that this approach is at variance with the underlying phys ical idea of the MCWF technique, that it is at variance with basic formal r equirements for the MCWF technique to apply, and that it produces spurious and unphysical quantitative results for wide ranges of parameters. [S1050-2 947(99)00501-6].