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Photon Recoil in Light Scattering by a Bose–Einstein Condensate of a Dilute Gas

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Photon recoil upon light scattering by a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) of a dilute atomic gas is analyzed theoretically accounting for a weak interatomic interaction. Our approach is based on the Gross–Pitaevskii equation for the condensate, which is coupled to the Maxwell equation for the field. The dispersion relations of recoil energy and momentum are calculated, and the effect of weak nonideality of the condensate on the photon recoil is ubraveled. A good agreement between the theory and experiment [7] on the measurement of the photon recoil momentum in a dispersive medium is demonstrated.

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One of the authors (E.D.T.) acknowledges support from the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 15-02-08369-A. The development of a modified mathematical simulation algorithm for the analysis of elementary scattering events was performed by Yu.A. Avetisyan and supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (State Task no. AAAA-A18-118042790042-4) and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-07-00378).

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  1. Institute of Precision Mechanics and Control, Russian Academy of Sciences, 410028, Saratov, Russia

    Yu. A. Avetisyan

  2. Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, 9747 AG, Groningen, The Netherlands

    V. A. Malyshev

  3. Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia

    E. D. Trifonov

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Avetisyan, Y.A., Malyshev, V.A. & Trifonov, E.D. Photon Recoil in Light Scattering by a Bose–Einstein Condensate of a Dilute Gas. J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 130, 380–386 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063776120010124

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