Stopping light via hot atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 628-631

  Kocharovskaya, Olga ^a,b   Rostovtsev, Yuri ^a   Scully, Marlan O ^a,c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPPLER EFFECT; INITIAL VALUE PROBLEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX;

ELECTROMAGNETICALLY INDUCED TRANSPARENCY; GALILEAN TRANSFORMATION; HOT ATOMS; MAXWELLIAN THERMAL DISTRIBUTION; POLARITON;

ATOMS;

EID: 0035135130     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.628     Document Type: Article

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16. Since the original submission of this paper, several interesting publications have appeared on the subject of "slow light": U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 822 (2000); M. Lukin and A. Imamoglu, ibid. 84, 1419 (2000); M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, and M. Fleischhauer, ibid. 84, 4232 (2000); M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, ibid. 84, 5094 (2000). However, none of these papers have dealt with freezing light via a stationary hot gas.
17. Since the original submission of this paper, several interesting publications have appeared on the subject of "slow light": U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 822 (2000); M. Lukin and A. Imamoglu, ibid. 84, 1419 (2000); M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, and M. Fleischhauer, ibid. 84, 4232 (2000); M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, ibid. 84, 5094 (2000). However, none of these papers have dealt with freezing light via a stationary hot gas.
18. Since the original submission of this paper, several interesting publications have appeared on the subject of "slow light": U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 822 (2000); M. Lukin and A. Imamoglu, ibid. 84, 1419 (2000); M. D. Lukin, S. F. Yelin, and M. Fleischhauer, ibid. 84, 4232 (2000); M. Fleischhauer and M. D. Lukin, ibid. 84, 5094 (2000). However, none of these papers have dealt with freezing light via a stationary hot gas.