Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for ultracold quantum gases
Other Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v3
Abstract
We have studied 2-body correlations of atoms in an expanding cloud above and below the Bose-Einstein condensation threshold. The observed correlation function for a thermal cloud shows a bunching behavior, while the correlation is flat for a coherent sample. These quantum correlations are the atomic analogue of the Hanbury Brown Twiss effect. We observe the effect in three dimensions and study its dependence on cloud size.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508466,
title = {Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for ultracold quantum gases},
author = {M. Schellekens and R. Hoppeler and A. Perrin and J. Viana Gomes and D. Boiron and A. Aspect and C. I. Westbrook},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508466},
year = {2009}
}
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