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Matter wave speckle observed in an out-of-equilibrium quantum fluid

Quantum Gases 2019-01-24 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Atomic Physics Fluid Dynamics Quantum Physics

Abstract

We report the results of a direct comparison of a freely expanding turbulent Bose-Einstein condensate and the propagation of an optical speckle pattern. We found remarkably similar statistical properties underlying the spatial propagation of both phenomena. The calculated second-order correlation together with the typical correlation length of each system is used to compare and substantiate our observations. We believe that the close analogy existing in between an expanding turbulent quantum gas and a traveling optical speckle, might burgeon into an exciting new research field investigating disordered quantum matter.

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@article{arxiv.1606.01589,
  title  = {Matter wave speckle observed in an out-of-equilibrium quantum fluid},
  author = {Pedro E. S. Tavares and Amilson R. Fritsch and Gustavo D. Telles and Mahir S. Hussein and François Impens and Robin Kaiser and Vanderlei S. Bagnato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.01589},
  year   = {2019}
}

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5 pages, 4 figures