Spatial effects in superradiant Rayleigh scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates
Other Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We present a detailed theoretical analysis of superradiant Rayleigh scattering from atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. A thorough investigation of the spatially resolved time-evolution of optical and matter-wave fields is performed in the framework of the semiclassical Maxwell-Schroedinger equations. Our theory is not only able to explain many of the known experimental observations, e.g., the behavior of the atomic side-mode distributions, but also provides further detailed insights into the coupled dynamics of optical and matter-wave fields. To work out the significance of propagation effects, we compare our results to other theoretical models in which these effects are neglected.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601714,
title = {Spatial effects in superradiant Rayleigh scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {O. Zobay and Georgios M. Nikolopoulos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601714},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, 13 figures