Multipole interaction between atoms and their photonic environment

Wubs, Martijn and Suttorp, L.G. and Lagendijk, A. (2003) Multipole interaction between atoms and their photonic environment. Physical review A: Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 68 . 013822:1-013822:16. ISSN 1050-2947

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Abstract:	Macroscopic field quantization is presented for a nondispersive photonic dielectric environment, both in the absence and presence of guest atoms. Starting with a minimal-coupling Lagrangian, a careful look at functional derivatives shows how to obtain Maxwell's equations before and after choosing a suitable gauge. A Hamiltonian is derived with a multipolar interaction between the guest atoms and the electromagnetic field. Canonical variables and fields are determined and in particular, the field canonically conjugate to the vector potential is identified by functional differentiation as minus the full displacement field. An important result is that inside the dielectric a dipole couples to a field that is neither the (transverse) electric nor the macroscopic displacement field. The dielectric function is different from the bulk dielectric function at the position of the dipole, so that local-field effects must be taken into account.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2003 The American Physical Society
Research Group:	Complex Photonic Systems (CoPS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/40625
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.013822
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