P.N. Lebedev Institute of Physics, Moscow, USSR;A.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Moscow, USSR;Institute of the Physics of Semiconductors, Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, USSR
Abstract:
The effectiveness of atom scattering by the field of a standing light wave with arbitrary interaction times is calculated in a quasiclassical approximation. The influence of spontaneous emission and the non-monochromatic nature of the field on the effective potential of an atom is discussed. The conclusions of theory are compared with the results of a recent experiment.