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Superradiance

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Radiation-enhancement processes have a long history that can be traced back to the dawn of quantum mechanics, when Klein showed that the Dirac equation allows for electrons to be transmitted even in classically forbidden regions [1]. In 1971 Zel’dovich showed that scattering of radiation off rotating absorbing surfaces results, under certain conditions, in waves with a larger amplitude [2, 3].

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Brito, R., Cardoso, V., Pani, P. (2015). Introduction. In: Superradiance. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 906. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19000-6_1

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