激发光线宽对原子光致漂移速率的影响

在光致漂移效应的研究中,激发光线宽会改变原子激发的速度选择性,进而影响漂移速率的大小.本文以原子光致漂移速率方程理论为基础,利用强碰撞模型描述原子与缓冲气体的碰撞作用,运用数值方法对速率方程进行求解计算,研究了激发光线宽对原子漂移速率的影响.研究结果表明,其他条件相同时,随着线宽的增大,漂移速率的值呈现先增大后减小的趋势.存在一个最佳的激发光线宽,使得原子的漂移速率达到最大值.最佳线宽与激发光功率密度、温度和缓冲气体压强有关.为了获得最佳的光致漂移效果,激发光应工作在最佳线宽条件下.当激发光线宽在最佳线宽附近波动时,设置激发光线宽略大于最佳线宽可减少线宽波动对漂移速率的影响,对获得较大漂移速率更为有利.     

Dynamics of a three-level atom in a resonant light field

The paper is devoted to a consideration of the motion of a three-level atom in two resonant light waves. A kinetic equation of the Fokker-Planck type for the atomic distribution function is derived, which is valid when the recoil energy is small compared to the linewidths of the resonant transitions. The detailed behaviour of the radiation force and the diffusion tensor are studied numerically. The case of exact resonance and the nonresonant case are both considered. It is shown that a detuning from exact resonance results in a drastic decrease of the resonant light pressure force. For the detuning we determine the condition, under which an efficient action of the light pressure on a three-level atom takes place.     

Laser cooling of antihydrogen

We present a short review of the essential techniques of cooling free atoms by resonant laser radiation. The different contributions to the light forces are explained and their application to the problem of damping the thermal motion of free atoms is described. Due to quantum mechanical fluctuations of the light force there exists a limit temperature for a given atomic transition. Deceleration of atomic beams by the radiation pressure demands techniques to maintain the resonance condition while the Doppler shift of the decelerated atom is rapidly changing. Radiation forces may serve to compress and deflect slow atomic beams as well as to trap cold atoms. The possible use of pulsed laser radiation is discussed.     

Drift of gases induced by nonmonochromatic light

The phenomenon of light-induced drift of gases influenced by a nonmonochromatic light with different spectral properties is under consideration. The dependence of the drift velocity on the spectrum shape, bandwidth, detunings and light intensity is studied. The largest drift velocity is found to be obtained at the bandwidth of the spectrum being of the order of the Doppler atomic transition width, and when the wings of the spectrum drop rapidly. It is shown that nonmonochromatic light of the same intensity as a monochromatic one allows to reach a much larger drift velocity. Principal possibilities to obtain supersonic light-induced drift velocities are shown.     

Light-induced drift of ions in a magnetic field

The effect of a magnetic field on the ion drift in a weakly ionized gas under the combined action of the light-induced drift and light pressure is studied theoretically. It is shown that, under the action of light, a component of ion drift velocity transverse to the direction of propagation of radiation may appear in a weakly ionized gas upon the application of an external magnetic field. It is shown that the Lorentz force acting on ions in the magnetic field radically changes the dependence of the ion drift velocity on the radiation frequency detuning. It is predicted that the ion drift velocity component along the direction of radiation must reverse its sign upon an increase in the magnetic field and an anomalous light-induced drift may be observed.     

Adsorption effects in light-induced drift

We describe the effect of light-induced drift, while allowing for adsorption of the active atoms on the wall of the cell. Assuming a rapid rate of adsorption and desorption, we express this effect by a modification of the diffusion equation for the volume density in the boundary layer near the wall. Explicit solutions are discussed in opposite special cases, corresponding to a large or a small mean free path of the active atoms.     

The scattering of slow atoms by light

A kinetic equation has been obtained describing the motion of atoms in a resonant field of standing light wave. This equation is used to describe the scattering of atoms for conditions close to experimental ones [1]. It is shown that the dependence of atomic scattering has a dip at the resonance frequency of the field.     

Modification of radiation pressure due to cooperative scattering of light

Cooperative spontaneous emission of a single photon from a cloud of N atoms modifies substantially the radiation pressure exerted by a far-detuned laser beam exciting the atoms. On one hand, the force induced by photon absorption depends on the collective decay rate of the excited atomic state. On the other hand, directional spontaneous emission counteracts the recoil induced by the absorption. We derive an analytical expression for the radiation pressure in steady-state. For a smooth extended atomic distribution we show that the radiation pressure depends on the atom number via cooperative scattering and that, for certain atom numbers, it can be suppressed or enhanced. Cooperative scattering of light by extended atomic clouds can become important in the presence of quasi-resonant light and could be addressed in many cold atoms experiments.     

Effect of the pressure of light on the shape of saturated-absorption resonance in a gas

The effect of a force of resonance pressure of light on the amplitude and frequency properties of saturated-absorption resonance in a gas of two-level atoms was studied. On the basis of numerical solutions of the Liouville and Fokker-Planck equations, dynamics of changes in the velocity-distribution function of an ensemble of atomic particles, depending on the saturation parameter and time of their interaction with a strong field of light, was evaluated. The shape of a resonance line, related to saturated absorption, and its location relative to the frequency of the atomic transition were determined taking into account the dynamics of the distribution function. The results of the calculations are compared with the experimental data.     

Light-induced drift of neon under optical excitation from a metastable state

A running light wave, resonant with the neon transition 1s₅-2p₂, has been found out to affect the spatial distribution of neon atoms in a positive discharge column. The effect has shown an antisymmetric dependence (typical of the light-induced drift) on the tuning out of the radiation frequency relatively the absorption line centre, as well as on the direction of the light wave vector.     

驻波场中原子的跃迁速率与所受辐射压力的关系

从二能级原子的密度矩阵运动方程出发,研究了原子在驻波场中的受激吸收速率、受激辐射速率和辐射压力的对应关系,提出了在驻波场中原子所受的辐射压力由受激吸收力和受激辐射力构成。此观点可以推广至N个行波场和原子相互作用的情况。     

Dynamic properties of wehrl information entropy and wehrl phase distribution for a moving four-level atom

We study the dynamics of the von Neumann entropy, Wehrl entropy, and Wehrl phase distribution for a single four-level ladder-type atom interacting with a one-mode cavity field taking into account the atomic motion. We obtain the exact solution of the model using the Schr¨odinger equation under specific initial conditions. Also we investigate the quantum and classical quantifiers of this system in the nonresonant case. We examine the effects of detuning and the atomic motion parameter on the entropies and their density operators. We observe an interesting monotonic relation between the different physical quantities in the case of nonmoving and moving atoms during the time evolution. We show that both the detuning and the atomic motion play important roles in the evolution of the Wehrl entropy, its marginal distributions, entanglement, and atomic populations.     

一维金刚石结构晶格的非线性局域模

用多重尺度法研究了质量均匀相互作用力交替变化的原子链形成的非线性局域振动模式,这 种原子链模拟了金刚石结构晶格沿〈111〉晶向或一维分子链的振动,通过多重尺度展开分 析得出,原子位移分布服从微扰的非线性Schrdinger方程,求得了相应的定态解和传播解 ,其结果与相互作用力相同质量交替分布的另一种形式的一维双原子晶格的结果有所不同, 其原因是金刚石结构晶格的对称性相对差些. 关键词： 金刚石结构 非线性局域模 多重尺度法     

Scattering of atoms by light

This review discusses the latest theoretical and experimental achievements in the resonant light pressure acting on the translational motion of atoms. Alongside with the effects due to the spontaneous light pressure (atomic deflection, velocity bunching, cooling), various manifestations of the effects of induced light pressure are considered in detail. This paper provides the theory and experiments of atoms scattering by a standing light wave under the conditions of coherent and non-coherent interaction, diffraction and interference of atomic beams. The problems where atomic motion along two trajectories and Landau-Zener transitions between them are essential, are studied. The kinetic phenomena (scattering, cooling, channeling) due to the motion of the particles exposed to gradient force and also friction and diffusion caused by spontaneous emission are considered. The influence of the recoil effect under spontaneous emission of atoms on non-linear polarization phenomena is discussed.     

Quantum Statistical Aspects of Interactions Between the Radiation Field and Two Entangled Two-Level Atoms in the Presence of Stark Shift Terms

We consider a system consisting of two two-level atoms interacting with a radiation field, including Stark shift terms, and investigate the effect of Stark shift terms on the interaction between the radiation field and the two atoms. Within the framework of the Heisenberg picture, we obtain the general solution to the operator equations of motion. In addition, we derive the general solution obtained by solving the system of differential equations. Some statistical aspects such as atomic inversion and linear entropy are discussed in detail. We study the effect of the time-dependent function on the population inversion and linear entropy. Finally, we examine the linear entropy, concurrence, and quantum and classical correlations for different values of the detuning parameter.     

Absorption notch in the spectrum of a transform limited pulse of small area

We consider the frequency distribution of the absorption when a short uncertainty broadened light pulse interacts with an atomic resonance sharp with respect to the spectral width of the pulse. We demonstrate theoretically that a sharp absorption notch within the frequency profile of an uncertainty broadened incident light pulse originates from destructive interference between the original pulse and the free induction tail of radiation of excited atoms. The notch is unambiguously observed for nanosecond pulses interacting with an atomic beam of sodium.     

Dynamics of moving interacting atoms in a laser radiation field and optical size resonances

The forces acting on interacting moving atoms exposed to resonant laser radiation are calculated. It is shown that the forces acting on the atoms include the radiation pressure forces as well as the external and internal bias forces. The dependences of the forces on the atomic spacing, polarization, and laser radiation frequency are given. It is found that the internal bias force associated with the interaction of atomic dipoles via the reemitted field may play an important role in the dynamics of dense atomic ensembles in a light field. It is shown that optical size resonances appear in the system of interacting atoms at frequencies differing substantially from transition frequencies in the spectrum of atoms. It is noted that optical size resonances as well as the Doppler frequency shift in the spectrum of interacting atoms play a significant role in the processes of laser-radiation-controlled motion of the atoms.     

Quantum theory of light propagation in a fluctuating laser-active medium

The basic equations are derived which describe the propagation of an electromagnetic field in a fluctuating laser-active medium. The well-known methods of Langevinequations and master-equation for a few discrete modes are generalized to meet also the case of a radiation field with continuous spectrum. The medium is described by two-level atoms which are embedded in a merely passive solid matrix and homogeneously distributed over space. They have an inversion which is kept constant by an externally applied pump. The atomic line may be homogeneously or inhomogeneously broadened. We obtain a complete set of partial differential equations for the field operators with damping terms and fluctuating forces homogeneously distributed over the material. The telegraph equation with a fluctuating force occurs as a special case. After the exact elimination of the atomic variables we obtain a nonlinear field equation for the radiation field alone. By means of a pseudo-Hamiltonian and by a simple one-dimensional example we show that in a certain sense there exists a close formal analogy between the present theory and the theory of an interacting Bose gas. The characteristic differences between the two theories are also discussed. We find, that there occurs a phase transition of the radiation field because above a certain threshold of the pump the photons condense into a single mode and establish an “offdiagonal-long-range order”. The amplitude fluctuations and the phase fluctuations, which restore the broken phase symmetry, are calculated in detail. A new condition for the occurrence of undamped spiking (pulse formation) for a continuum of modes is derived.     

Creation of an effective magnetic field in ultracold atomic gases using electromagnetically induced transparency

We consider the influence of the control and probe beams in the electromagnetically induced transparency configuration on the mechanical motion of ultracold atomic gases (atomic Bose-Einstein condensates or degenerate Fermi gases). We carry out a microscopic analysis of the interplay between radiation and matter and show that the two beams of light can provide an effective magnetic field acting on electrically neutral atoms in the case where the probe beam has an orbital angular momentum. As an example, we demonstrate how a Meissner-like effect can be created in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate.