2005/10/27 by O. Zobay, Georgios M. Nikolopoulos · 2 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #cond-mat.other #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.72.041604
published as Phys. Rev. A 72, 041604(R) (2005) · 4 pages, 2 figures
openalex publication_date 2005/10/27 · arxiv created 2005/11/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
We study superradiant scattering off Bose-Einstein condensates by solving the semiclassical Maxwell-Schr"odinger equations describing the coupled dynamics of matter-wave and optical fields. Taking the spatial dependence of these fields along the condensate axis into account, we are able to reproduce and explain many of the characteristic features observed in the experiments of Inouye et al. [Science 285, 571 (1999)] and Schneble et al. [Science 300, 475 (2003)], such as the shape of the atomic side-mode distributions for forward and backward scattering, the spatial asymmetry between forward and backward side modes, and the depletion of the condensate center observed for forward scattering.