Spatially sequential turn-on of spontaneous emission from an atomic wave packet
arXiv:quant-ph/9802059
Abstract
We discuss a simple example demonstrating that spontaneous emission from "space-time-superposed" atomic center-of-mass wave packets is nontrivially and time-dependent modified with respect to the standard dipole-pattern typical of "space-superposed" wave packets. Our approach provides an approximate description of a nonsimultaneous interaction of electromagnetic field with different parts of a wave packet.
to be published in Int.J.Theor.Phys.; revtex, 3 ps figures