{
  "id": "quant-ph/0306028",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2003-06-04T10:35:44.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-06-04T10:35:44.000Z",
  "title": "Electromagnetic-field quantization and spontaneous decay in left-handed media",
  "authors": [
    "Ho Trung Dung",
    "Stefan Yoshi Buhmann",
    "Ludwig Knöll",
    "Dirk-Gunnar Welsch",
    "Stefan Scheel"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 5 figures, RevTex",
  "journal": "Physical Review A 68 (4), 043816 (2003)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.68.043816",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We present a quantization scheme for the electromagnetic field interacting with atomic systems in the presence of dispersing and absorbing magnetodielectric media, including left-handed material having negative real part of the refractive index. The theory is applied to the spontaneous decay of a two-level atom at the center of a spherical free-space cavity surrounded by magnetodielectric matter of overlapping band-gap zones. Results for both big and small cavities are presented, and the problem of local-field corrections within the real-cavity model is addressed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2003-06-04T10:35:44.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "spontaneous decay",
      "electromagnetic-field quantization",
      "left-handed media",
      "electromagnetic field",
      "atomic systems"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. A"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}