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May 14, 1990Physical Review Letters765 citations

Quantum electrodynamics near a photonic band gap: Photon bound states and dressed atoms

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SJSajeev JohnJWJian Wang

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It is shown that in dielectrics exhibiting a complete photonic band gap, quantum electrodynamics predicts the occurrence of bound states of photons to hydrogenic atoms. When the atomic transition frequency lies near a photonic band edge, the excited atomic level experiences an anomalous Lamb shift and splits into a doublet. One member of this doublet exhibits resonance fluorescence whereas the other level is dressed by the emission and reabsorption of near-resonant photons whose amplitude decays exponentially from the vicinity of the atom.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a700d65a528af2d65c34c62https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.64.2418
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