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.

    ORCID iDs

    Tesio, Enrico, Robb, Gordon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3004-5926, Ackemann, Thorsten ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2727-7395, Firth, William and Oppo, Gian-Luca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-4309;
    • Item type:Article
      ID code:47887
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      29 January 2014
      Published
      29 January 2014
      Published Online
      23 December 2013
      Accepted
      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:11 May 2021 00:26
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      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/47887
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