Published March 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Sum rule for the optical spectrum of a trapped gas

  • 1. Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)
  • 2. Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 (United States)

Description

We develop an exact sum rule that relates the spectral shift of a trapped gas undergoing cold collisions to measurable quantities of the system. The method demonstrates the dependence of the cold collision frequency shift on the quantum degeneracy of the gas and facilitates extracting scattering lengths from the data. To illustrate the method, we consider optical shift for the Thomas-Fermi model of Bose-Einstein condensate in a harmonic optical trap

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 033617-033617.7
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36027822
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; OPTICS; PHOTON-ATOM COLLISIONS; RADIATION PRESSURE; SCATTERING LENGTHS; SPECTRA; SPECTRAL SHIFT; SUM RULES; THOMAS-FERMI MODEL; TRAPPING; TRAPS
Descriptors DEC
ATOM COLLISIONS; ATOMIC MODELS; COLLISIONS; DIMENSIONS; EQUATIONS; LENGTH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTON COLLISIONS

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society