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Local field effects are important in nonlinear and quantum optics where the atomic or molecular number density of atoms or molecules which interact with the electromagnetic field is such that there are, on the average, many atoms or molecules within some cubic resonance wavelength1. It is useful to examine these effects in terms of the relationship between the local microscopic field EL that generates an atomic dipole moment p, α = p/EL, where α is the atomic polarizabilitiy, and the macroscopic Maxwell field E and volume polarization P. For an isotropic homogeneous medium of a single species, P = nαEL, where n is the number density.
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Bowden, C.M., Manka, A.S., Dowling, J.P., Fleischhauer, M. (1996). Local Field Effects in Nonlinear and Quantum Optics. In: Eberly, J.H., Mandel, L., Wolf, E. (eds) Coherence and Quantum Optics VII. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_33
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