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Local-Field Correction for an Interstitial Impurity in Crystal

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Author(s)

A Rahmani, P C. Chaumet, G C. Bryant

Abstract

The local-field correction experienced by an interstitial impurity in a crystal with cubic symmetry is derived by use of a rigorous, self-sonsistent, semi-microscopic description of spontaneous emission in a microcavity. We compute the local-field factor for various positions of the impurity inside the crystal. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the local-field factor can be computed from a simple model as a rapidly converging lattice sum. We show that the agreement between the predictions of this simple model and the rigorous calculations is remarkable, opening the way to a simple, general theory of local-field effect for an impurity in a crystal with arbitrary symmetry.
Citation
Optics Letters
Volume
27
Issue
No. 6
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

coupled dipole method, lattice sums, local-field effect, nanoptics, Prucell effect, spontaneous emission

Citation

Rahmani, A. , Chaumet, P. and Bryant, G. (2002), Local-Field Correction for an Interstitial Impurity in Crystal, Optics Letters (Accessed May 11, 2025)

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Created March 1, 2002, Updated February 17, 2017