NONLOCALITY AND THE ROTATING WAVE APPROXIMATION

Authors
CLERK AA SIPE JE
Citation
Aa. Clerk et Je. Sipe, NONLOCALITY AND THE ROTATING WAVE APPROXIMATION, Foundations of physics, 28(4), 1998, pp. 639-651
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Foundations of physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00159018
Volume
28
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
639 - 651
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-9018(1998)28:4<639:NATRWA>2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
The effect of the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) on the coupling be tween on atom and the electromagnetic field is studied in the dipole a pproximation. II is demonstrated that use of the RWA results in an exp licitly nonlocal interaction.