ATOMIC SOLITON IN A TRAVELING-WAVE LASER-BEAM

Authors
ZHANG WP WALLS DF SANDERS BC
Citation
Wp. Zhang et al., ATOMIC SOLITON IN A TRAVELING-WAVE LASER-BEAM, Physical review letters, 72(1), 1994, pp. 60-63
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Physical review letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
00319007
Volume
72
Issue
1
Year of publication
1994
Pages
60 - 63
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-9007(1994)72:1<60:ASIATL>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
A vector quantum field theory is employed to study the propagation of an ultracold atomic wave packet in a traveling wave laser beam with a Gaussian intensity profile. The collective dipole-dipole correlation i nduced by photon exchanges between atoms produces a ''Kerr-type'' nonl inearity of atomic waves. We show that such an atomic nonlinearity cou ld result in an atomic soliton under appropriate conditions.