Effective Field Theory for Light in Disordered Atomic Medium
arXiv:cond-mat/0701005
Abstract
We develop a field theory approach to light propagation in a gas of resonant atoms taking into account vector character of light and atom-atom interactions. Within this approach, we calculate the propagator of the electric field for both short and long-range density-density correlation functions of the gas.
22 pages, 1 figure
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