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We present the emergence of coherent two-photon backscattering, a manifestation of weak localization, in multiple scattering of maximally entangled pure and fully mixed two-photon states and examine the effect of entanglement and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-25 Nooshin M. Estakhri , Theodore B. Norris

Using analytical and numerical methods, it is shown that the momentum distribution of a matter wave packet launched in a random potential exhibits a pronounced coherent backscattering (CBS) peak. By analyzing the momentum distribution, key…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-02-06 Nicolas Cherroret , Tomasz Karpiuk , Cord A. Müller , Benoît Grémaud , Christian Miniatura

We investigate coherent backscattering of light by two harmonically trapped atoms in the light of quantitative quantum duality. Including recoil and Doppler shift close to an optical resonance, we calculate the interference visibility as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Wickles , Cord Mueller

We review experimental and theoretical studies of coherent backscattering of near resonant radiation from an ultracold atomic gas in the weak localization regime. Recent accomplishments in high resolution spectroscopy of atomic ensembles…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 I. M. Sokolov , D. V. Kupriyanov , C. I. Sukenik , M. D. Havey

We demonstrate that incoherent photon scattering by a Bose-Einstein condensate of non-ideal atomic gas is enhanced due to bosonic stimulation of spontaneous emission, similarly to coherent scattering in forward direction. Necessary initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. E. Mazets

The interference contrast observed in coherent backscattering by cold atoms is drastically reduced with respect to classical disordered media. We study the impact of the degeneracy of the resonant atomic dipole transition on multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. A. Mueller , C. Miniatura

Multiple light scattering is widely used to characterize dense colloidal systems as well as in deep tissue imaging; experiments are often interpreted via a theory of diffusion of the light intensity within a sample, neglecting the vector…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. Maggs , V. Rossetto

Understanding how atoms collectively interact with light is not only important for fundamental science, but also crucial for designing light-matter interfaces in quantum technologies. Over the past decades, numerous studies have focused on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-18 Yu-Kun Lu , Hanzhen Lin , Jiahao Lyu , Yoo Kyung Lee , Vitaly Fedoseev , Wolfgang Ketterle

We theoretically and computationally investigate the behavior of infinite atom arrays when illuminated by nearly resonant light. We use higher order mean field equations to investigate the coherent reflection and transmission and incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-02 F. Robicheaux , Deepak A. Suresh

We study the shape of the coherent backscattering (CBS) cone obtained when resonant light illuminates a thick cloud of laser-cooled rubidium atoms in presence of a homogenous magnetic field. We observe new magnetic field-dependent…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Labeyrie , C. Miniatura , C. A. Mueller , O. Sigwarth , D. Delande , R. Kaiser

We measure the coherent scattering of light by a cloud of laser-cooled atoms with a size comparable to the wavelength of light. By interfering a laser beam tuned near an atomic resonance with the field scattered by the atoms we observe a…

We review known and discuss new signatures of high-intensity Compton scattering assuming a scenario where a high-power laser is brought into collision with an electron beam. At high intensities one expects to see a substantial red-shift of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 Chris Harvey , Thomas Heinzl , Anton Ilderton

We present an investigation of coherent backscattering of light that is multiple scattered by a photonic crystal by using a broad-band technique. The results significantly extend on previous backscattering measurements on photonic crystals…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-21 Otto L. Muskens , A. Femius Koenderink , Willem L. Vos

We study the resonance fluorescence properties of an optically active spin 1/2 system, elucidating the effects of a magnetic field on the coherence of the scattered light. We derive a master equation model for this system that reproduces…

We report the first observation of the dependence of the coherent-backscattering (CBS) enhanced cone with the frequency of the backscattered photon. The experiment is performed on a diffusing liquid suspension and the Doppler broadening of…

Optics · Physics 2008-12-18 Max Lesaffre , Michael Atlan , Michel Gross

All experiments with ultracold atoms are performed in the presence of background residual gas. With the help of a suitable master equation we investigate a role of these fast atoms on the loss of coherence in optical lattices. We present an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Krzysztof Pawlowski , Kazimierz Rzazewski

When a coherent laser beam impinges on a random sample (e.g. a colloidal suspension), the scattered light exhibits characteristic speckles. If the temporal coherence of the light source is too short, then the speckles disappear, along with…

Optics · Physics 2011-12-13 D. Brogioli , D. Salerno , F. Croccolo , R. Ziano , F. Mantegazza

In this work we develop an experimental procedure to interrogate the single- and multiphoton scattering matrices of an unknown quantum system interacting with propagating photons. Our proposal requires coherent state laser or microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Tomás Ramos , Juan José García-Ripoll

We measure the resonant forward scattering of light by a highly saturated atomic medium through the flashes emitted immediately after an abrupt extinction of the probe beam. The experiment is done in a dilute regime where the phenomena are…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 C. C. Kwong , T. Wellens , K. Pandey , D. Wilkowski

This paper analyzes coherent backscattering of intense laser light by two randomly placed distant atoms. Starting from the general two-atom master equation, we analytically derive the elastic and inelastic background and interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Vyacheslav Shatokhin , Tobias Geiger , Thomas Wellens , Andreas Buchleitner