Carminati, F.-R.;
Sanchez-Palencia, L.;
Schiavoni, M.;
Renzoni, F.;
Grynberg, G.;
(2003)
Rayleigh scattering and atomic dynamics in dissipative optical lattices.
Physical Review Letters
, 90
(4)
043901.
10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.043901.
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Abstract
We investigate Rayleigh scattering in dissipative optical lattices. In particular, following recent proposals [S. Guibal et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4709 (1997); C. Jurczak et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 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.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Rayleigh scattering and atomic dynamics in dissipative optical lattices |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.043901 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.043901 |
| Language: | English |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/9959 |
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