Spontaneous emission of polaritons from a Bose-Einstein condensate
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We study the spontaneous emission of a partially excited Bose-Einstein condensate composed of two-level atoms. The formation of polaritons induced by the ground-state part of the condensate leads to an avoided crossing in the photon spectrum. This avoided crossing acts similarly to a photonic band gap and modifies the spontaneous emission rate.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9903127,
title = {Spontaneous emission of polaritons from a Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {Karl-Peter Marzlin and Weiping Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9903127},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, revtex