Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 71, Number 2, July 2005
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Page(s) | 214 - 220 | |
Section | Electromagnetism, optics, acoustics, heat transfer, classical mechanics, and fluid dynamics | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10083-5 | |
Published online | 17 June 2005 |
Probing the light-induced dipole-dipole interaction in momentum space
1
5. Physikalisches Institut, Universität Stuttgart - 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
2
Kirchhoff Institut, Universität Heidelberg - 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Received:
4
March
2005
Accepted:
26
May
2005
We theoretically investigate the mechanical effect of the light-induced dipole-dipole interaction potential on the atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate. We present numerical calculations on the magnitude and shape of the induced potentials for different experimentally accessible geometries. It is shown that the mechanical effect can be distinguished from the effect of incoherent scattering for an experimentally feasible setting.
PACS: 42.50.Ct – Quantum description of interaction of light and matter; related experiments / 34.20.Cf – Interatomic potentials and forces / 03.75.-b – Matter waves
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