Séminaire du LPTMS: John Martin

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31/01/2017    
11:00 - 12:00

LPTMS, salle 201, 2ème étage, Bât 100, Campus d'Orsay
15 Rue Georges Clemenceau, Orsay, 91405

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Cold atom superradiance

John Martin (Université de Liège, Belgique)

In my talk, I will report on the derivation and resolution of a novel master equation governing the cooperative spontaneous emission from an ensemble of cold atoms [1]. Our master equation for the atomic internal degrees of freedom incorporates the effects of the quantization of the atomic center-of-mass motion. It provides a unifying picture of the consequences of recoil and indistinguishability of atoms beyond the Lamb-Dicke regime, both on their dissipative and conservative internal dynamics. I will discuss general expressions for the decay rates and dipole-dipole shifts entering our master equation. As an application of our formalism, I will then investigate the consequences of indistinguishability of cold atoms on two hallmarks of cooperative emission processes: Dicke super- and subradiance [2].

Références :
  1. [1] F. Damanet, D. Braun, and J. Martin, Master equation for collective spontaneous emission with quantized atomic motion, Phys. Rev. A 93, 022124 (2016) ;
    Cooperative spontaneous emission from indistinguishable atoms in arbitrary motional quantum states, ibid. 94, 033838 (2016).
  2. [2] R. H. Dicke, Coherence in Spontaneous Radiation Processes, Phys. Rev. 93, 99 (1954).
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