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Abstract
Rayleigh scattering off a Bose-Einstein condensate was studied. Exposing an elongated condensate to a single off-resonant laser beam resulted in the observation of highly directional scattering of light and atoms. This collective light scattering is caused by the coherent center-of-mass motion of the atoms in the condensate. A directional beam of recoiling atoms was built up by matter wave amplification.Year: 1999 PMID: 10417384 DOI: 10.1126/science.285.5427.571
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728