Publication Date:
2003-03-29
Description:
The interaction of short and strong laser pulses with an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate is found to generate patterns of recoiling atoms that are different from those seen in previous light-scattering experiments. This phenomenon can only be explained by optical stimulation, showing that the previous description of superradiance as atomic stimulation is incomplete and that matter-wave amplification in Bose-Einstein condensates is suppressed at short times. Our experiments clarify the nature of bosonic stimulation in the four-wave mixing of light and atoms.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Schneble, Dominik -- Torii, Yoshio -- Boyd, Micah -- Streed, Erik W -- Pritchard, David E -- Ketterle, Wolfgang -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Apr 18;300(5618):475-8. Epub 2003 Mar 27.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Research Laboratory of Electronics and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. schneble@mit.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12663817" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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