Comment on "Coherent and Incoherent Light Scattering by Single-Atom Wavepackets"
Abstract
V.A. Kuz menko
The e-print arXiv:2410.19671 presents new, interesting results of the experimental study of scattered light by cold atoms [1]. Here we propose an alternative explanation of the physical nature of anisotropic radiation scattering and a simple protocol for its experimental verification.
In the test pulse radiation, the optical trap, and the scattered radiation detector were apparently located in a horizontal plane [1]. With an increase in the delay of the probing test pulse, an increase in the intensity of scattered radiation was observed. Isotropic and anisotropic components of scattered radiation are distinguished here. In this case, the detector registered precisely the isotropic component. The authors call the anisotropic component coherent and associate it with the Bragg scattering of light from the lattice of cold atoms [2-4].
