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Physical Review Letters

Optical signatures of a tightly confined Bose condensate

Juha Javanainen

Published Apr 11, 1994• 123 citations
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Abstract

Optical properties of a Bose condensate of ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{c}}$ atoms tightly confined to a harmonic oscillator potential are studied. A resonantly illuminated condensate scatters as much light as x independent atoms, where x depends on the size of the condensate and on the wavelength of light but not on ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{c}}$; the linewidth of the resonance is ${\mathit{N}}_{\mathit{c}}$/x times larger than the linewidth of an individual constituent atom. If the condensate is bigger than a wavelength, light is predominantly scattered in the forward direction.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.72.2375

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