Symmetry breaking and metastable chaos in a coherently driven superradiant system

V. G. Benza; S. W. Koch

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.35.174

Symmetry breaking and metastable chaos in a coherently driven superradiant system

V. G. Benza, S. W. Koch

Optical Sciences, College of

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The temporal evolution of the transmitted light field is computed for a high-density gas of two-level atoms, which is externally excited by an amplitude-modulated field in resonance with the atomic transitions. The transmitted field is shown to exhibit a chaotic transient and a cascade through different phase-locked orbits. Due to the asymmetry of these orbits, the field develops a nonzero average value even in the absence of a bias.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	174-183
Number of pages	10
Journal	Physical Review A
Volume	35
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.35.174
State	Published - 1987

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