arXiv · quant-ph/0008001
Manipulation of Cold Atomic Collisions by Cavity QED Effects
Abstract
We show how the dynamics of collisions between cold atoms can be manipulated by a modification of spontaneous emission times. This is achieved by placing the atomic sample in a resonant optical cavity. Spontaneous emission is enhanced by a combination of multiparticle entanglement together with a higher density of modes of the modified vacuum field, in a situation akin to superradiance. A specific situation is considered and we show that this effect can be experimentally observed as a large suppression in trap-loss rates.
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J. I. Kim, R. B. B. Santos, P. Nussenzveig.. 2001-02-01. Manipulation of Cold Atomic Collisions by Cavity QED Effects. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.1474
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