Hitting a BEC with a comb: Evolution of interference patterns inside a magnetic trap
Soft Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We study the evolution inside a harmonic trap of Bose-Einstein condensates released from the periodic potential of an optical lattice. After a time-of-flight, harmonic motion of the interference peaks is observed as well as a breathing motion in the direction perpendicular to the optical lattice. We interpret these results in terms of a simple physical model and discuss the possibility of more detailed studies of such a system.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0211079,
title = {Hitting a BEC with a comb: Evolution of interference patterns inside a magnetic trap},
author = {J. H. Müller and O. Morsch and M. Cristiani and D. Ciampini and E. Arimondo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0211079},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
10 pages, 3 figures; submitted to the Journal of Optics B special issue on the "7th International Conference on Atom Optics and Interferometry" (Lunteren, 2002)