Coherent collapse of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate for different trap geometries
Atomic Physics
2009-06-21 v2 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
We experimentally investigate the collapse dynamics of dipolar Bose- Einstein condensates of chromium atoms in different harmonic trap geometries, from prolate to oblate. The evolutions of the condensates in the unstable regime are compared to three-dimensional simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation including three-body losses. In order to probe the phase coherence of collapsed condensates, we induce the collapse in several condensates simultaneously and let them interfere.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0901.1300,
title = {Coherent collapse of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate for different trap geometries},
author = {J Metz and T Lahaye and B Fröhlich and A Griesmaier and T Pfau and H Saito and Y Kawaguchi and M Ueda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.1300},
year = {2009}
}