Self-Organization Threshold Scaling for Thermal Atoms Coupled to a Cavity

We make a detailed experimental study of the threshold for the self-organization of thermal 87Rb atoms coupled to a high-finesse cavity over a range of atom numbers and cavity detunings. We investigate the difference between probing with a traveling wave and a retroreflected lattice. These two scena...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Arnold, K J, Baden, M P, Barrett, M D
Format Paper Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 03.11.2012
Subjects
Physics - Atomic Physics
Physics - Quantum Physics
Scaling
Traveling waves
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Summary:We make a detailed experimental study of the threshold for the self-organization of thermal 87Rb atoms coupled to a high-finesse cavity over a range of atom numbers and cavity detunings. We investigate the difference between probing with a traveling wave and a retroreflected lattice. These two scenarios lead to qualitatively different behavior in terms of the response of the system as a function of cavity detuning with respect to the probe. In both cases, we confirm a N-1 scaling of the threshold with atom number.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1205.4186