Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Citation:
Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Page : 2120-2125
Abstract:
It is shown that the correlation between momenta of two atoms cooperatively deflected from an
off-resonant quantized standing-wave light field arises due to the fluctuations of the field in the photon
number. The normalized cross-correlation functions are calculated. The Cauchy-Schwartz-type inequalities
for the joint distribution of the atomic transverse momenta are derived. The simultaneous deflection of the
atoms allows one to determine the mean photon number and the width of the photon distribution and to
produce predetermined correlations between atomic de Broglie waves.
