Directed spontaneous emission from an extended ensemble of N atoms: timing is everything

• Main Authors: Ooi, Chong Heng Raymond, Wodkiewicz, K., Scully, M.O., Fry, E.S.
• Format: Article
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: QC Physics
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/7934/; http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v96/i1/e010501
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

A collection of N static atoms is fixed in a crystal at a low temperature and prepared by a pulse of incident radiation of wave vector k ->(0). The N atoms are well described by an entangled Dicke-like state, in which each atom carries a characteristic phase factor exp(ik ->(0)center dot r -&g...