Rayleigh Scattering and Atomic Dynamics in Dissipative Optical Lattices
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We investigate Rayleigh scattering in dissipative optical lattices. In particular, following recent proposals (S. Guibal {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 78}, 4709 (1997); C. Jurczak {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 1727 (1996)), we study whether the Rayleigh resonance originates from the diffraction on a density grating, and is therefore a probe of transport of atoms in optical lattices. It turns out that this is not the case: the Rayleigh line is instead a measure of the cooling rate, while spatial diffusion contributes to the scattering spectrum with a much broader resonance.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0301139,
title = {Rayleigh Scattering and Atomic Dynamics in Dissipative Optical Lattices},
author = {Francois-Regis Carminati and Laurent Sanchez-Palencia and Michele Schiavoni and Ferruccio Renzoni and Gilbert Grynberg},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0301139},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters (2003)