Superradiance and multiple scattering of photons in atomic gases

Details Superradiance and multiple scattering of photons in atomic gases Superradiance and multiple scattering of photons in atomic gases

2007-04-26

arxiv.org/abs/0704.3522v1

Phys. Rev. A 75, 053413 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

12 pages, 7 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.75.053413

We study the influence of cooperative effects such as superradiance and subradiance, on the scattering properties of dilute atomic gases. We show that cooperative effects lead to an effective potential between pairs of atoms that decays like $1/r$. In the case of superradiance, this potential is attractive for close enough atoms and can be interpreted as a coherent mesoscopic effect. We consider a model of multiple scattering of a photon among superradiant pairs and calculate the elastic mean free path and the group velocity. We study first the case of a scalar wave which allows to obtain and to understand basic features of cooperative effects and multiple scattering. We then turn to the general problem of a vector wave. In both cases, we obtain qualitatively similar results and derive, for the case of a scalar wave, analytic expressions of the elastic mean free path and of the group velocity for an arbitrary (near resonance) detuning.

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