Classical noise and flux: the limits of multi-state atom lasers
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
By direct comparison between experiment and theory, we show how the classical noise on a multi-state atom laser beam increases with increasing flux. The trade off between classical noise and flux is an important consideration in precision interferometric measurement. We use periodic 10 microsecond radio-frequency pulses to couple atoms out of an F=2 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate. The resulting atom laser beam has suprising structure which is explained using three dimensional simulations of the five state Gross-Pitaevskii equations.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0311361,
title = {Classical noise and flux: the limits of multi-state atom lasers},
author = {N. P. Robins and C. M. Savage and J. J. Hope and J. E. Lye and C. S. Fletcher and S. A. Haine and J. D. Close},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0311361},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures