Theory of superradiant scattering of laser light from Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:cond-mat/9905425 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.5202
Abstract
In a recent MIT experiment, a new form of superradiant Rayleigh scattering was observed in Bose-Einstein condensates. We present a detailed theory of this phenomena in which the directional dependence of the scattering rate and condensate depletion lead to mode competition which is ultimately responsible for superradiance. The nonlinear response of the system is highly sensitive to initial quantum fluctuations which cause large run to run variations in the observed superradiant pulses.
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