Metastable Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Linear Potential
Other Condensed Matter
2013-06-10 v2 Quantum Gases
Abstract
We have created a Bose-Einstein condensate whose spin orientation is metastable. Condensates were transferred into a quadrupole magnetic trap, where Majorana transitions limited the lifetime to a few hundred milliseconds, about 30 times the trapping period. Atoms held in the trap frequently displayed a ring-shaped time-of-flight distribution. We speculate that such a ring could be either a quantized vortex or a feature of the Majorana loss dynamics in the quantum regime.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510165,
title = {Metastable Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Linear Potential},
author = {D. S. Naik and S. R. Muniz and C. Raman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510165},
year = {2013}
}