Cooperativity in light scattering by cold atoms

DOI10.1002/PROP.201200089zbMATH Open1338.81435arXiv1204.5598OpenAlexW2126659841MaRDI QIDQ2812945FDOQ2812945

Authors: T. Bienaimé, R. Bachelard, N. Piovella, Robin Kaiser 

Publication date: 13 June 2016

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A cloud of cold N two-level atoms driven by a resonant laser beam shows cooperative effects both in the scattered radiation field and in the radiation pressure force acting on the cloud center-of-mass. The induced dipoles synchronize and the scattered light presents superradiant and/or subradiant features. We present a quantum description of the process in terms of a master equation for the atomic density matrix in the scalar, Born-Markov approximations, reduced to the single-excitation limit. From a perturbative approach for weak incident field, we derive from the master equation the effective Hamiltonian, valid in the linear regime. We discuss the validity of the driven timed Dicke ansatz and of a partial wave expansion for different optical thicknesses and we give analytical expressions for the scattered intensity and the radiation pressure force on the center of mass. We also derive an expression for collective suppression of the atomic excitation and the scattered light by these correlated dipoles.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.5598

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zbMATH Keywords

cooperativitycold atomsDicke states

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Quantum optics (81V80) Antennas, waveguides in optics and electromagnetic theory (78A50) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Atomic physics (81V45) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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