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Random Scattering by Atomic Density Fluctuations in Optical Lattices

M. Blaauboer, G. Kurizki, V. M. Akulin

physics.atom-pharXiv:physics/0011033

Abstract

We investigate hitherto unexplored regimes of probe scattering by atoms trapped in optical lattices: weak scattering by effectively random atomic density distributions and multiple scattering by arbitrary atomic distributions. Both regimes are predicted to exhibit a universal semicircular scattering lineshape for large density fluctuations, which depend on temperature and quantum statistics.

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