Kinetic theory for transverse optomechanical instabilities
Tesio, Enrico and Robb, Gordon and Ackemann, Thorsten and Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2014) Kinetic theory for transverse optomechanical instabilities. Physical Review Letters, 112 (4). 043901. ISSN 0031-9007
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Abstract
We investigate transverse symmetry-breaking instabilities emerging from the optomechanical coupling between light and the translational degrees of freedom of a collisionless, damping-free gas of cold, two-level atoms. We develop a kinetic theory that can also be mapped on to the case of an electron plasma under ponderomotive forces. A general criterion for the existence and spatial scale of transverse instabilities is identified; in particular, we demonstrate that monotonically decreasing velocity distribution functions are always unstable.
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Tesio, Enrico, Robb, Gordon ![]() ![]() ![]() | Item type: | Article |
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ID code: | 47887 |
Keywords: | transverse symmetry-breaking instabilities, optomechanics, kinetic theory, Optics. Light, Physics and Astronomy(all) |
Subjects: | Science > Physics > Optics. Light |
Department: | Faculty of Science > Physics |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date deposited: | 07 May 2014 13:15 |
Last modified: | 25 Jan 2021 03:16 |
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URI: | https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47887 |
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