Mean-Field Description of Cooperative Scattering by Atomic Clouds
arXiv:2308.10331 · doi:10.3390/atoms11070101
Abstract
We present analytic expressions for the scattering of light by an extended atomic cloud. We obtain the solution for the mean-field excitation of different atomic spherical distributions driven by an uniform laser, including the initial build-up, the steady-state and the decay after the laser is switched off. We show that the mean-field model does not describe subradiant scattering, due to negative interference of the photons scattered by discrete atoms.
arXiv comment14 pages, 9 figures
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