2004/06/24 by Janus H. Wesenberg, J. H. Wesenberg, Klaus Mølmer +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.93.143903
published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 143903 (2004) · RevTeX, 4 pages, 3 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
arxiv created 2004/06/24 · openalex publication_date 2004/09/27 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We determine the probability distribution for the field inside a random distribution of electric or magnetic dipoles. Although the average contribution from any spherical shell around the probe position vanishes, at the center of a spherical distribution of parallel dipoles, the Levy stable distribution of the field is symmetric around a nonvanishing field amplitude. Omission of contributions from a small volume around the probe leads to a field distribution with a vanishing mean, which, in the limit of vanishing excluded volume, converges to the shifted distribution.