Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 4032–4035 (2000)Pondermotive Forces with Slow LightReceived 21 July 2000; published in the issue dated 6 November 2000 This work describes atomic processes which result from the greatly enhanced longitudinal gradient force which is inherent to the propagation of slow light. These processes are (1) ballistic atom motion and atom surfing, and (2) a type of local pondermotive nonlinearity or scattering which results from free-particle sinusoidal motion and the density variation caused by this motion. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4032
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.85.4032
PACS:
32.80.Lg, 32.80.Qk, 42.50.Vk
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