Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Collective atomic scattering and motional effects in a dense coherent medium

  • S. L. Bromley,
  • B. Zhu,
  • M. Bishof,
  • X. Zhang,
  • T. Bothwell,
  • J. Schachenmayer,
  • T. L. Nicholson,
  • R. Kaiser,
  • S. F. Yelin,
  • M. D. Lukin,
  • A. M. Rey,
  • J. Ye

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11039
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Light scattering from a dense coherent medium is determined by the interplay of dispersive and radiative dipole–dipole interactions. Here, the authors control the motional effects that obscure the coherence of scattered light and study collective emission in a driven gas of cold strontium-88 atoms.