Collective Atomic Motion in an Optical Lattice formed inside a High Finesse Cavity

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5 September 2003

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.quant-ph/0305164

Abstract

We report on collective non-linear dynamics in an optical lattice formed inside a high finesse ring cavity in a so far unexplored regime, where the light shift per photon times the number of trapped atoms exceeds the cavity resonance linewidth. We observe bistability and self-induced squeezing oscillations resulting from the retro-action of the atoms upon the optical potential wells. We can well understand most of our observations within a simplified model assuming adiabaticity of the atomic motion. Non-adiabatic aspects of the atomic motion are reproduced by solving the complete system of coupled non-linear equations of motion for hundred atoms.

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Published version: Physical Review Letters, 91 (15), 153003.

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