Cooperative Scattering by Cold Atoms

TL;DR

This paper investigates how disorder and cooperative scattering interact in cold atoms under laser illumination, providing analytical insights and experimental validation across different atomic systems.

Contribution

It offers the first comprehensive analytical framework for cooperative scattering in cold atoms and confirms predictions through diverse experimental setups.

Findings

Cooperative scattering effects observed in thermal atoms, BEC, and atoms released from dark MOT.

Analytical results match experimental data across different atomic configurations.

Demonstrates the influence of disorder on cooperative scattering phenomena.

Abstract

We have studied the interplay between disorder and cooperative scattering for single scattering limit in the presence of a driving laser. Analytical results have been derived and we have observed cooperative scattering effects in a variety of experiments, ranging from thermal atoms in an optical dipole trap, atoms released from a dark MOT and atoms in a BEC, consistent with our theoretical predictions.