title: Random scattering by atomic density fluctuations in optical lattices.
abstract: We investigate hitherto unexplored regimes of probe scattering by atoms trapped in optical lattices: weak scattering by effectively random atomic density distributions and multiple scattering by arbitrary atomic distributions. Both regimes are predicted to exhibit a universal semicircular scattering line shape for large density fluctuations, which depend on temperature and quantum statistics.
authors.affiliation: Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Blaauboer
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kurizki
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Akulin