Superradiance of several cold atoms

Abstract

A method for calculating the spontaneous emission power of several immobile dipole-interacting two-level atoms located in a volume of about the wavelength of resonance radiation has been proposed in the Schrodinger representation. It has been shown that two atoms cannot, but four atoms can, emit a superradiance pulse under the conditions corresponding to experiments with cold atoms in dipole traps. Various methods for determining the quasistationary mixed atomic states, as well as the generalization of this method to other resonance emitting systems, are discussed.