Bose-stimulated scattering off a cold atom trap

Abstract

The angle and temperature dependence of the photon scattering rate for Bose-stimulated atom recoil transitions between occupied states is compared to diffraction and incoherent Rayleigh scattering near the Bose-Einstein transition for an optically thin trap in the limit of large particle number, N. Each of these processes has a range of angles and temperatures for which it dominates over the others by a divergent factor as N->oo.

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References in corpus (2)

• Condensate fluctuations of a trapped, ideal Bose gas
• Optical scattering angles and Bose-stimulated motion in cold atomic gas

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