SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN CHAOTIC CAVITIES

Authors
MISIRPASHAEV TS BROUWER PW BEENAKKER CWJ
Citation
Ts. Misirpashaev et al., SPONTANEOUS EMISSION IN CHAOTIC CAVITIES, Physical review letters, 79(10), 1997, pp. 1841-1844
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
79
Issue
10
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1841 - 1844
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1997)79:10<1841:SEICC>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
The spontaneous emission rate Gamma of a two-level atom inside a chaot ic cavity fluctuates strongly from one point to another because of flu ctuations in the local density of modes. For a cavity with perfectly c onducting walls and an opening containing N wave channels, the distrib ution of Gamma is given by P(Gamma) proportional to Gamma(N/2-1)(Gamma + Gamma(0))(-N-1), where Gamma(0) is the free-space rate. For small N the most probable value of Gamma is much smaller than the mean value Gamma(0).