Observation of superradiant Raman scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; RAYLEIGH SCATTERING; RUBIDIUM; STIMULATED EMISSION;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE; BOSONIC STIMULATION; QUANTUM STATES; RAMAN PROCESS;

RAMAN SCATTERING;

EID: 2942588769     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.041603     Document Type: Article

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