Cooperative Scattering by Cold Atoms
physics.atom-ph
/ Authors
S. Bux, E. Lucioni, H. Bender, T. Bienaime, K. Lauber, C. Stehle, C. Zimmermann, S. Slama, Ph. W. Courteille, N. Piovella
and 1 more author
/ Abstract
We have studied the interplay between disorder and cooperative scattering for single scattering limit in the presence of a driving laser. Analytical results have been derived and we have observed cooperative scattering effects in a variety of experiments, ranging from thermal atoms in an optical dipole trap, atoms released from a dark MOT and atoms in a BEC, consistent with our theoretical predictions.