2002/06/30 by Almut Beige, Jiannis K. Pachos, Jiannis Pachos +2 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.66.063801
published as Phys. Rev. A 66, 063801 (2002) · 8 pages, 6 figures, revised version, references added
arxiv created 2002/09/15 · openalex publication_date 2002/12/05 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Motivated by a recent experiment [J. Eschner et al., Nature (London) 413, 495 (2001)], we now present a theoretical study on the fluorescence of an atom in front of a mirror. On the assumption that the presence of the distant mirror and a lens imposes boundary conditions on the electric field in a plane close to the atom, we derive the intensities of the emitted light as a function of an effective atom-mirror distance. The results obtained are in good agreement with the experimental findings.