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Physical Review Letters

Spectrum of Light Scattered from a Weakly Interacting Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas

Robert Graham, Daniel F. Walls

Published Mar 11, 1996• 31 citations
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Abstract

Light scattered off a dilute Bose-Einstein condensed gas of atoms at large detuning, besides a broad background, shows two symmetrically placed peaks whose intensities are related by detailed balance and whose frequencies depend on the product of the number of atoms in the condensate and the scattering length.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.76.1774

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