Rayleigh Scattering and Atomic Dynamics in Dissipative Optical Lattices

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2003-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301139v1

Physical Review Letters 90 (2003) 043901

Physics

Quantum Physics

accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters (2003)

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.043901

We investigate Rayleigh scattering in dissipative optical lattices. In particular, following recent proposals (S. Guibal {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 78}, 4709 (1997); C. Jurczak {\it et al}, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 77}, 1727 (1996)), we study whether the Rayleigh resonance originates from the diffraction on a density grating, and is therefore a probe of transport of atoms in optical lattices. It turns out that this is not the case: the Rayleigh line is instead a measure of the cooling rate, while spatial diffusion contributes to the scattering spectrum with a much broader resonance.

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