2000/11/30 by M. Blaauboer, Gershon Kurizki, G. Kurizki +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #Scattering #Scattering length #Scattering theory #physics.atom-ph #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.86.3518
published as Phys. Rev. Lett 86, 3518-3521 (2001) · 4 pages, 2 figures
arxiv created 2001/01/12 · openalex publication_date 2001/04/16 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We investigate hitherto unexplored regimes of probe scattering by atoms trapped in optical lattices: weak scattering by effectively random atomic density distributions and multiple scattering by arbitrary atomic distributions. Both regimes are predicted to exhibit a universal semicircular scattering line shape for large density fluctuations, which depend on temperature and quantum statistics.