Interference scheme to measure light-induced nonlinearities in Bose-Einstein condensates
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v2 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
Light-induced nonlinear terms in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation arise from the stimulated coherent exchange of photons between two atoms. For atoms in an optical dipole trap this effect depends on the spatial profile of the trapping laser beam. Two different laser beams can induce the same trapping potential but very different nonlinearities. We propose a scheme to measure light-induced nonlinearities which is based on this observation.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0204051,
title = {Interference scheme to measure light-induced nonlinearities in Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {K. V. Krutitsky and K. -P. Marzlin and J. Audretsch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0204051},
year = {2009}
}
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