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Spontaneous emission of polaritons from a Bose-Einstein condensate

Karl-Peter Marzlin, Weiping Zhang

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9903127

Abstract

We study the spontaneous emission of a partially excited Bose-Einstein condensate composed of two-level atoms. The formation of polaritons induced by the ground-state part of the condensate leads to an avoided crossing in the photon spectrum. This avoided crossing acts similarly to a photonic band gap and modifies the spontaneous emission rate.

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