{ "id": "quant-ph/0210144", "version": "v1", "published": "2002-10-21T12:30:09.000Z", "updated": "2002-10-21T12:30:09.000Z", "title": "Effects of nonlocality in time of interactions of an atom with its surroundings on the broadening of spectral lines of atoms", "authors": [ "Renat Kh. Gainutdinov", "Aigul A. Mutygullina", "Werner Scheid" ], "comment": "15 pages, 4 figures, to be published in Physics Letters A", "journal": "Phys. Lett. A, v.306, pp.1-9 (2003)", "doi": "10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01476-7", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "We investigate effects of nonlocality in time of the interaction of an atom with its surroundings on the spectral line broadening. We show that these effects can be very significant: In some cases nonlocality in time of this interaction can give rise to a spectral line splitting.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2002-10-21T12:30:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "interaction", "surroundings", "cases nonlocality", "spectral line broadening" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }