Abstract
The quantum-mechanical image method is extended to consider the interaction between the electromagnetic radiation and two different atoms with their electronic transition dipoles oriented in arbitrary directions near a perfectly conducting metal surface. The atom-atom and atom-surface separations are assumed to be smaller than the corresponding mean resonance wavelength. A general form of atom-image correlation state is constructed for the arbitrarily oriented atomic dipole and its physical interpretation is given. Based on this generalized formulation, the total emission rate is calculated for the diatomic system in several experimentally preparable initial states, whose initial emission rates are found to be dependent on the orientation of the emitting dipoles. These peculiar emission pattern can be accounted for by the dependence of the phase relations between the constituent terms of the diatomic states on the dipole orientation. Detailed examination in this regard is addressed, as an example, to the antisymmetric diatomic state.
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