Coherent inelastic backscattering of intense laser light by cold atoms

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Shatokhin, V ^a,b   Muller C A ^c   Buchleitner, A ^b  

^a B I STEPANOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Belarus)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK KOMPLEXER SYSTEME   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT INELASTIC BACKSCATTERING; COLD ATOMS; NONPERTURBATIVE TREATMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICAL DEPHASING MECHANISMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ATOMS; BACKSCATTERING; FUNCTIONS; LIGHT INTERFERENCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LASER BEAMS;

EID: 18044368473     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.043603     Document Type: Article

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