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Control of Atomic Collisions by Laser Polarization

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2004

Authors

Schmidt, T
Figl, Cristina
Grimpe, A
Grosser, J
Hoffmann, O
Rebentrost, F

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American Physical Society

Abstract

The control of an atom-atom collision in a polarized laser field was analyzed. It was found that the two interfering collisional waves can be excited with independent complex amplitudes. The results show that the interference fringes can be shifted to any angular position and the contrast of the interference pattern can be given any value between 0 and 1. Exploiting the polarization of the exciting laser field appeared as a versatile and simple tool for the control of collisional process.

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Keywords: Atomic beams; Electron energy levels; Interferometers; Laser beams; Light interference; Light polarization; Optical beam splitters; Oscillations; Probability; Vectors; Atomic collisions; Laser polarization; Optical excitation; Atomic physics

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/36334

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ANU Research Publications

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Physical Review Letters

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Journal article

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10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.033201

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2037-12-31

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