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Cavity-Controlled Collective Scattering at the Recoil Limit

Quantum Gases 2011-05-23 v2 Atomic Physics

Abstract

We study collective scattering with Bose-Einstein condensates interacting with a high-finesse ring cavity. The condensate scatters the light of a transverse pump beam superradiantly into modes which, in contrast to previous experiments, are not determined by the geometrical shape of the condensate, but specified by a resonant cavity mode. Moreover, since the recoil-shifted frequency of the scattered light depends on the initial momentum of the scattered fraction of the condensate, we show that it is possible to employ the good resolution of the cavity as a filter selecting particular quantized momentum states.

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@article{arxiv.1101.2391,
  title  = {Cavity-Controlled Collective Scattering at the Recoil Limit},
  author = {Simone Bux and Christine Gnahm and Reinhardt A. W. Maier and Claus Zimmermann and Philippe W. Courteille},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.2391},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 4 figures