Superradiant Rayleigh scattering from a Bose-Einstein condensate

Science

Volumn 285, Issue 5427, 1999, Pages 571-574

  Inouye, S ^a   Chikkatur, A P ^a   Stamper Kurn, D M ^a   Stenger, J ^a   Pritchard, D E ^a   Ketterle, W ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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ARTICLE; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033597879     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5427.571     Document Type: Article

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32. We thank C. E. Kuklewicz for experimental assistance. D. A. Kokorowski for critical reading of the manuscript, and H. M. Gibbs, P. Meystre, J. H. Eberly, E. M. Wright, and M. S. Feld for helpful discussions. This work was supported by the Office of Naval Research, NSF, Joint Services Electronics Program (Army Research Office), NASA, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. A.P.C acknowledges support from NSF, D.M.S.-K. from the Joint Services Electronics Program Graduate Fellowship Program, and J.S. from the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation.