Abstract:<sec> In 2011, Kumar et al. (2011 <i>Phys. Rev. A</i> <b>84</b> 043402) studied the light force acting on a beam of neutral two-level atoms superimposed on a few-cycle-pulse Gaussian laser field under both resonant and off-resonant conditions by solving the optical Bloch equation beyond the rotating-wave approximation, and they found that under resonant condition the transverse component of the light force shows oscillatory behavior but vanishes when a time average is ta… Show more
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