Physics
Scientific paper
Aug 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004phrva..70b3405j&link_type=abstract
Physical Review A, vol. 70, Issue 2, id. 023405
Physics
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Mechanical Effects Of Light On Atoms, Molecules, Electrons, And Ions, Synchronization, Coupled Oscillators, Self-Organized Systems, Dynamics Of Nonlinear Optical Systems, Optical Instabilities, Optical Chaos And Complexity, And Optical Spatio-Temporal Dynamics
Scientific paper
The interaction of an atomic gas confined inside a cavity containing a strong electromagnetic field is numerically and theoretically investigated in a regime where recoil effects are not negligible. The spontaneous appearance of a density grating (atomic bunching) accompanied by the onset of a coherent, back-propagating electromagnetic wave is found to be ruled by a continuous phase transition. Numerical tests allow us to convincingly prove that the transition is steered by the appearence of a periodic atomic density modulation. Consideration of different experimental relaxation mechanisms induces us to analyze the problem in nearly analytic form, in the large detuning limit, using both a Vlasov approach and a Fokker-Planck description. The application of our predictions to recent experimental findings, reported by
Javaloyes J.
Lippi Gian-Lucca
Perrin Marshall
Politi Alberto
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