2008/05/12 by I. M. Sokolov, M. D. Kupriyanova, Mariia Kupriyanova +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atomic physics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Optics #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Quantum optics and atomic interactions #Random lasers and scattering media #Scattering #Ultracold atom #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.79.053405
published as Phys. Rev. A 79, 053405 (2009)
arxiv created 2008/05/12 · openalex publication_date 2009/05/07 · arxiv updated 2015/05/12 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The quantum optical response of high-density ultracold atomic systems is important to a wide range of fundamentally and technically important physical processes. We present here a microscopic analysis of the light scattering on such a system and compare it with a corresponding description based on macroscopic Maxwell theory. Results are discussed in the context of the spectral resonance structure of the scattering cross section, the time-dependent response under a range of conditions, and evolution of these quantities as the atomic density is varied. For high atomic densities, the microscopic theoretical treatment reveals a distributed and configuration-dependent narrow resonance structure. This structure is attributed to microcavity spatial structures associated with the dense and ultracold atomic gases.