Eur. Phys. J. Special Topics 217, 85-90 (2013)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2013-01757-7

Regular Article

Off-resonant light scattering from ultracold gases in optical lattices

Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Hoża 69, 00-681 Warsaw, Poland

^a e-mail: kajac@fuw.edu.pl

Received: 4 September 2012
Revised: 15 January 2013
Published online: 11 March 2013

Abstract

We examine the possibility to study the statistical properties of trapped ultracold bosons with light scattering. We derive general effective hamiltonian and show that the spectrum of scattered photons contains information about density-density correlations. As a specific example we discuss light scattering as a potential tool to probe the Mott transition in optical lattice and Anderson localization in incommensurate superlattice.