Semiclassical spin damping: Superradiance revisited
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چکیده
A well known description of superradiance from pointlike collections of many atoms involves the dissipative motion of a large spin. The pertinent \superradiance master equation" allows for a formally exact solution which we subject to a semiclassical evaluation. The clue is a saddle-point approximation for an inverse Laplace transform. All previous approximate treatments, disparate as they may appear, are encompassed in our systematic formulation. A byproduct is a hitherto unknown rigorous relation between coherences and probabilities. Our results allow for generalizations to spin dynamics with chaos in the classical limit.
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