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TY - JOUR
T1 - Collective suppression of optical hyperfine pumping in dense clouds of atoms in microtraps
AU - Machluf, Shimon
AU - Naber, Julian B
AU - Soudijn, Maarten L
AU - Ruostekoski, Janne
AU - Spreeuw, Robert C J
N1 - © 2019 American Physical Society
PY - 2019/11/25
Y1 - 2019/11/25
N2 - We observe a density-dependent collective suppression of optical pumping between the hyperfine ground states in an array of submicrometer-sized clouds of dense and cold rubidium atoms. The suppressed Raman transition rate can be explained by strong resonant dipole-dipole interactions that are enhanced by increasing atom density, and are already significant at densities of ﰀ0.1k3, where k denotes the resonance wave number. The observations are consistent with stochastic electrodynamics simulations that incorporate the effects of population transfer via internal atomic levels embedded in a coupled-dipole model.
AB - We observe a density-dependent collective suppression of optical pumping between the hyperfine ground states in an array of submicrometer-sized clouds of dense and cold rubidium atoms. The suppressed Raman transition rate can be explained by strong resonant dipole-dipole interactions that are enhanced by increasing atom density, and are already significant at densities of ﰀ0.1k3, where k denotes the resonance wave number. The observations are consistent with stochastic electrodynamics simulations that incorporate the effects of population transfer via internal atomic levels embedded in a coupled-dipole model.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.051801
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.100.051801
M3 - Journal article
VL - 100
JO - Physical review a
JF - Physical review a
SN - 1050-2947
IS - 5
M1 - 051801(R)
ER -