Reflecting Slow Atoms from a Micromaser Field

abstract

• Excited atoms incident upon the entrance port of a maser cavity will be reflected half of the time, if the atoms are slow enough, even when the maser field is in its vacuum state. This happens because the interaction strength, between the atom and the maser field, changes strongly when passing from the exterior to the interior of the cavity. 1991 IOP Publishing Ltd.

authors

• Scully, Marlan

published proceedings

• EPL (Europhysics Letters)

author list (cited authors)

• Englert, B., Schwinger, J., Barut, A. O., & Scully, M. O.

citation count

• 130

complete list of authors

• Englert, B-G||Schwinger, J||Barut, AO||Scully, MO

publication date

• January 1991

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Europhysics Letters  Journal

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1209/0295-5075/14/1/005

start page

• 25

end page

• 31

volume

• 14

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/14/1/005