Bosonic enhancement of spontaneous emission near an interface
- We show how the spontaneous emission rate of an excited two-level atom placed in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate of ground-state atoms is enhanced by bosonic stimulation. This stimulation depends on the overlap of the excited matter-wave packet with the macroscopically occupied condensate wave function, and provides a probe of the spatial coherence of the Bose gas. The effect can be used to amplify the distance-dependent decay rate of an excited atom near an interface.
Author details: | Juergen Schiefele, Carsten HenkelORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2010.11.058 |
ISSN: | 0375-9601 |
Title of parent work (English): | Modern physics letters : A, Particles and fields, gravitation, cosmology, nuclear physics |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Place of publishing: | Amsterdam |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2011 |
Publication year: | 2011 |
Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
Tag: | Bose-Einstein condensation; Bosonic stimulation; Cavity-quantum electrodynamics; Correlation function; Spontaneous decay; Superradiance |
Volume: | 375 |
Issue: | 3 |
Number of pages: | 5 |
First page: | 680 |
Last Page: | 684 |
Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) |
Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
Peer review: | Referiert |