Resonant decay of a two state atom interacting with a massless non-relativistic quantised scalar field |
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Authors: | Christopher King |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics, Northeastern University, 02115 Boston, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | We consider a model Hamiltonian derived from the interaction of an atom with a non-relativistic massless quantized field. The model atom has two states, and the interaction is linear in the field operator. We do not make the rotating wave approximation and there is no infrared cutoff. We prove that the excited state of the atom with no photons present decays at an approximately exponential rate in accordance with the predictions of time dependent perturbation theory. The proof requires some analyticity and regularity assumptions on the interaction between atom and field. These imply in particular that the interaction goes to zero at least as fast ask
2, ask0, wherek is the photon momentum. |
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