Anisotropy in s-wave Bose-Einstein condensate collisions and its relationship to superradiance
Abstract
We report the experimental realization of a single-species atomic four-wave mixing process with BEC collisions for which the angular distribution of scattered atom pairs is not isotropic, despite the collisions being in the -wave regime. Theoretical analysis indicates that this anomalous behavior can be explained by the anisotropic nature of the gain in the medium. There are two competing anisotropic processes: classical trajectory deflections due to the mean-field potential, and Bose enhanced scattering which bears similarity to super-radiance. We analyse the relative importance of these processes in the dynamical buildup of the anisotropic density distribution of scattered atoms, and compare to optically pumped super-radiance.
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@article{arxiv.1406.1327,
title = {Anisotropy in s-wave Bose-Einstein condensate collisions and its relationship to superradiance},
author = {Piotr Deuar and Jean-Christophe Jaskula and Marie Bonneau and Valentina Krachmalnicoff and Denis Boiron and Christoph I. Westbrook and Karen V. Kheruntsyan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.1327},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
13 pages, 10 figures, added a fuller discussion of timescales, otherwise some minor changes in the text and the formatting of Figures 5-7