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Effect of atomic transfer on the decay of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1 Condensed Matter

Abstract

We present a model describing the decay of a Bose-Einstein condensate, which assumes the system to remain in thermal equilibrium during the decay. We show that under this assumption transfer of atoms occurs from the condensate to the thermal cloud enhancing the condensate decay rate.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0303134,
  title  = {Effect of atomic transfer on the decay of a Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {Pawel Zin and Andrzej Dragan and Szymon Charzynski and Norbert Herschbach and Paul Tol and Wim Hogervorst and Wim Vassen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0303134},
  year   = {2009}
}