Expansion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an atomic waveguide
Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
The expansion of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an atomic waveguide is analyzed. We study different regimes of expansion, and identify a transient regime between one-dimensional and three-dimensional dynamics, in which the properties of the condensate and its further expansion can be well explained by reducing the transversal dynamics to a two-level system. The relevance of this regime in current experiments is discussed.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111275,
title = {Expansion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an atomic waveguide},
author = {L. Plaja and L. Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111275},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 3 figs, Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A