Abstract
Optical properties of a Bose condensate of ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{c}}$ atoms tightly confined to a harmonic oscillator potential are studied. A resonantly illuminated condensate scatters as much light as x independent atoms, where x depends on the size of the condensate and on the wavelength of light but not on ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{c}}$; the linewidth of the resonance is ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{c}}$/x times larger than the linewidth of an individual constituent atom. If the condensate is bigger than a wavelength, light is predominantly scattered in the forward direction.
Keywords
Laser linewidthPhysicsWavelengthResonance (particle physics)Atom (system on chip)Atomic physicsOpticsBose–Einstein condensateCondensed matter physicsMolecular physicsLaser
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- 1994
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- 72
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- 15
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- 2375-2378
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Juha Javanainen
(1994).
Optical signatures of a tightly confined Bose condensate.
Physical Review Letters
, 72
(15)
, 2375-2378.
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.72.2375
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- DOI
- 10.1103/physrevlett.72.2375