title: Spontaneous emission from photonic crystals: full vectorial calculations
abstract: Quantum electrodynamics of atom spontaneous emission from a three-dimensional photonic crystal is studied in a full vectorial framework. The electromagnetic fields are quantized via solving the eigenproblem of photonic crystals with use of a plane-wave expansion method. It is found that the photon density of states and local density of states (LDOS) with a full band gap vary slowly near the edge of band gap, in significant contrast to the singular character predicted by the previous isotropic model. Therefore, the spontaneous emission can be solved by conventional Weisskopf-Wigner approximate theory, which yields a pure exponentially decaying behavior with a rate proportional to the LDOS.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 603, Beijing 100080, China.
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Li
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.initials: ZQ
authors.lastname: Zhang