Anomalous symmetry breaking in classical two-dimensional diffusion of coherent atoms

作者:Pugatch Rami*; Bhattacharyya Dipankar; Amir Ariel; Sagi Yoav; Davidson Nir
来源:Physical Review A, 2014, 89(3): 033807.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.89.033807

摘要

The electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) spectrum of atoms diffusing in and out of a narrow beam is measured and shown to manifest the two-dimensional delta-function anomaly in a classical setting. In the limit of small-area beams, the EIT line shape is independent of power, and equal to the renormalized local density of states of a free particle Hamiltonian. The measured spectra for different powers and beam sizes collapses to a single universal curve with a characteristic logarithmic Van Hove singularity close to resonance.

  • 出版日期2014-3-6