Superradiant light scattering from thermal atomic vapors

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 8, 2005, Pages

  Yoshikawa, Yutaka ^a   Torii, Yoshio ^a   Kuga, Takahiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOMENTUM; QUANTIZATION; RAMAN PHOTONS; WAVE AMPLIFICATION;

ATOMS; CONDENSATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FERMIONS; PHASE TRANSITIONS; PHOTONS; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; VAPORS;

LIGHT SCATTERING;

EID: 18244397454     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.083602     Document Type: Article

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