General diffusion equation for light-induced drift
- 1 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 36 (3) , 1305-1309
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.36.1305
Abstract
We derive a general diffusion equation for the density of an atomic vapor immersed in a buffer gas and irradiated by nearly resonant light. The combination of velocity-selective excitation with state-dependent rates of velocity-changing collisions then gives rise to a drift term, and at the same time the diffusion tensor becomes anisotropic and intensity dependent. Both the effect of light-induced drift and diffusive pulling of atoms by the light are described by this diffusion equation in a consistent and correlated fashion.Keywords
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