Manipulation of Cold Atomic Collisions by Cavity QED Effects

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We show how the dynamics of collisions between cold atoms can be manipulated by a modification of spontaneous emission times. This is achieved by placing the atomic sample in a resonant optical cavity. Spontaneous emission is enhanced by a combination of multiparticle entanglement together with a higher density of modes of the modified vacuum field, in a situation akin to superradiance. A specific situation is considered and we show that this effect can be experimentally observed as a large suppression in trap-loss rates.
RevTex, 2 EPS figures; scheduled for Phys. Rev. Lett. 19 Feb 01, with minor changes

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