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QED in the Presence of Arbitrary Kramers-Kronig Dielectric Media

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arxiv quant-ph/9906001 v2 pith:HK5VIY3W submitted 1999-06-01 quant-ph

QED in the Presence of Arbitrary Kramers-Kronig Dielectric Media

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The phenomenological Maxwell field is quantized for arbitrarily space- and frequency-dependent complex permittivity. The formalism takes account of the Kramers--Kronig relation and the dissipation-fluctuation theorem and yields the fundamental equal-time commutation relations of QED. Applications to the quantum-state transformation at absorbing and amplifying four-port devices and to the spontaneous decay of an excited atom in the presence of absorbing dielectric bodies are discussed.

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