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Analysis of multiphoton processes under the influence of a “larger environment,” such as the relaxation of excitations by spontaneous emission due to interaction with the vacuum field or the effects of laser fluctuation, is often most conveniently treated not within the framework of the amplitude equations but rather using the more general method of the density matrix. In this chapter we outline the method with examples of typical applications to problems of spontaneous relaxation(165) and field fluctuations(166–170) in multiphoton transitions.
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Faisal, F.H.M. (1987). The Density Matrix Method. In: Theory of Multiphoton Processes. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1977-9_8
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