2014/06/30 by Piotr Deuar, Jean-Christophe Jaskula, J.-C. Jaskula +7 · 9 citations
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Anisotropy #Atom (system on chip) #Bose–Einstein condensate #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Isotropy #Laser #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Realization (probability) #Scattering #Statistics #Superradiance #cond-mat.quant-gas
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.90.033613
published in Physical Review A 90(3) (American Physical Society) · 13 pages, 10 figures, added a fuller discussion of timescales, otherwise some minor changes in the text and the formatting of Figures 5-7
arxiv created 2014/08/30 · openalex publication_date 2014/09/12 · arxiv updated 2014/09/16 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We report the experimental realization of a single-species atomic four-wave mixing process with Bose-Einstein-condensate collisions for which the angular distribution of scattered atom pairs is not isotropic, despite the collisions being in the s-wave regime. Theoretical analysis indicates that this anomalous behavior can be explained by the anisotropic nature of the gain in the medium. There are two competing anisotropic processes: classical trajectory deflections due to the mean-field potential and Bose-enhanced scattering which bears similarity to superradiance. We analyze the relative importance of these processes in the dynamical buildup of the anisotropic density distribution of scattered atoms and compare the Bose enhancement effects to those in optically pumped superradiance.