Superradiant Rayleigh scattering of light from a Bose-Einstein condensate of dilute atomic gases, taking into account backward recoil momentum

An extension of the semiclassical model is proposed for superradiant Rayleigh scattering of light from a Bose-Einstein condensate of dilute atomic gases. In contrast to the familiar models, this model takes into account the fact that the atom may be excited by the scattered light and may acquire backward recoil momentum. The presented equations are solved analytically for the initial (linear) stage of the process. The intensity of the scattered light and the efficiency of populating atomic states with different momentum values are studied as a function of detuning from resonance. __________ Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 65–72, January–February, 2006.