| Автор | R Y Chiao |
| Дата выпуска | 1994-08-01 |
| dc.description | Analytic, limited-bandwidth signals, e.g. Gaussian wavepackets, whose frequencies lie in a transparent spectral window far below the resonance of an amplifying atomic medium, can propagate with phase, group, energy and 'signal' velocities (as defined by Sommerfeld and Brillouin) all exceeding the vacuum speed of light c. This 'superluminal' propagation may occur without significant distortion or gain. The front velocity, however, is not superluminal, and therefore Einstein causality is not violated. Applications will be discussed, including the possibility of using superluminal atomic coherence in condensed matter (e.g. macroscopic mass currents in superfluid helium which arise from vortex motions) for efficient gravitational antennae. |
| Формат | application.pdf |
| Издатель | Institute of Physics Publishing |
| Название | Atomic coherence effects which produce superluminal (but causal) propagation of wavepackets |
| Тип | paper |
| DOI | 10.1088/0954-8998/6/4/013 |
| Print ISSN | 0954-8998 |
| Журнал | Quantum Optics: Journal of the European Optical Society Part B |
| Том | 6 |
| Первая страница | 359 |
| Последняя страница | 369 |
| Аффилиация | R Y Chiao; Dept. of Phys., California Univ., Berkeley, CA, USA |
| Выпуск | 4 |
