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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 79, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.022510
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atom-photon collisions; bound states; hydrogen neutral atoms; quantum electrodynamics; resonant states; two-photon processes
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We investigate the two-photon decay rate of a highly excited atomic state which can decay to bound states of lower energy via cascade processes. We show that a naive treatment of the process, based on the introduction of phenomenological decay rates for the intermediate, resonant states, leads to lower-order terms which need to be subtracted in order to obtain the coherent two-photon correction to the decay rate. The sum of the lower-order terms is exactly equal to the one-photon decay rate of the initial state, provided the naive two-photon decay rates are summed over all available two-photon channels. A quantum electrodynamics treatment of the problem leads to an automatic subtraction of the lower-order terms.
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