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Dipole–dipole interactions, which govern phenomena such as cooperative Lamb shifts, superradiant decay rates, Van der Waals forces and resonance energy transfer rates, are conventionally limited to ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A new approach to control forces and interactions between atoms and molecules, such as those employed by geckos to climb vertical surfaces, could bring advances in new materials ...

Researchers contributed to a deeper understanding of free electron laser physics by evaluating the interaction between an ultraviolet laser and a relativistic electron beam in a pure dipole magnet.

Interactions between atoms and light rule the behavior of our physical world, but at the same time, can be extremely complex.

A team of physicists from the University of Innsbruck and Harvard University has proposed a fundamentally new way to generate laser light: a laser without mirrors. Their study shows that quantum ...

Physicists have uncovered how direct atom-atom interactions can amplify superradiance, the collective burst of light from ...

A team of physicists from the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw, the Center for New Technologies at the University of Warsaw and Emory University (Atlanta, U.S.) analyzed how atoms' ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Pierre Pillet, Laboraroire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, during the workshop, "Engineering Rydberg Interactions in Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas", held ...