Imaging the phase of an evolving Bose-Einstein condensate wavefunction
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
We demonstrate a spatially resolved autocorrelation measurement with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and measure the evolution of the spatial profile of its quantum mechanical phase. Upon release of the BEC from the magnetic trap, its phase develops a form that we measure to be quadratic in the spatial coordinate. Our experiments also reveal the effects of the repulsive interaction between two overlapping BEC wavepackets and we measure the small momentum they impart to each other.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005303,
title = {Imaging the phase of an evolving Bose-Einstein condensate wavefunction},
author = {J. E. Simsarian and J. Denschlag and Mark Edwards and Charles W. Clark and L. Deng and E. W. Hagley and K. Helmerson and S. L. Rolston and W. D. Phillips},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005303},
year = {2009}
}