Inouye S, Chikkatur AP, Stamper-Kurn DM, Stenger J, Pritchard DE, Ketterle W
Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Science. 1999 Jul 23;285(5427):571-4. doi: 10.1126/science.285.5427.571.
Rayleigh scattering off a Bose-Einstein condensate was studied. Exposing an elongated condensate to a single off-resonant laser beam resulted in the observation of highly directional scattering of light and atoms. This collective light scattering is caused by the coherent center-of-mass motion of the atoms in the condensate. A directional beam of recoiling atoms was built up by matter wave amplification.
研究了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的瑞利散射。将拉长的凝聚体暴露于单个非共振激光束下，观察到了光和原子的高度定向散射。这种集体光散射是由凝聚体中原子的相干质心运动引起的。通过物质波放大形成了反冲原子的定向束。
