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Coherent backscattering of light by cold atoms: theory meets experiment

Atomic Physics 2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Coherent backscattering (CBS) of quasi-resonant light by cold atoms presents some specific features due to the internal structure of the atomic scatterers. We present the first quantitative comparison between the experimentally observed CBS cones and Monte-Carlo calculations which take into account the shape of the atomic cloud as well as the internal atomic structure.

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@article{arxiv.physics/0211091,
  title  = {Coherent backscattering of light by cold atoms: theory meets experiment},
  author = {Guillaume Labeyrie and Dominique Delande and Cord A. Mueller and Christian Miniatura and Robin Kaiser},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0211091},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Eur. Phys. Lett