Collective excitation dynamics of a cold atom cloud
T. S. do Espirito Santo, P. Weiss, A. Cipris, Robin Kaiser, William Guerin, Romain Bachelard, Johannes Schachenmayer
Abstract
The time-dependent response of a cold atom cloud illuminated by a laser beam after the light is switched on is investigated both experimentally and theoretically. A superradiant damping is discovered in the collective Rabi oscillations.
Topics & Concepts
PhysicsExcitationUltracold atomNonlinear systemDipoleLaserSaturation (graph theory)Atomic physicsAtom (system on chip)Field (mathematics)Dynamics (music)Quantum opticsBeam (structure)Nonlinear opticsOpticsQuantum mechanicsComputer scienceMathematicsAcousticsEmbedded systemPure mathematicsQuantumCombinatoricsCold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein CondensatesQuantum optics and atomic interactionsQuantum Information and Cryptography