Observation of transverse condensation via Hanbury Brown--Twiss correlations
Quantum Gases
2013-09-09 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
A fundamental property of a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is long-range coherence, however, in systems of lower dimensionality, not only is the long range coherence destroyed, but additional states of matter are predicted to exist. One such state is a `transverse condensate', first predicted by van Druten and Ketterle [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 549 (1997)], in which the gas condenses in the transverse dimensions of a highly anisotropic trap while remaining thermal in the longitudinal dimension. Here we detect the transition from a three-dimensional thermal gas to a gas undergoing transverse condensation by probing Hanbury Brown--Twiss correlations.
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@article{arxiv.1308.2095,
title = {Observation of transverse condensation via Hanbury Brown--Twiss correlations},
author = {Wu RuGway and A. G. Manning and S. S. Hodgman and R. G. Dall and T. Lamberton and K. V. Kheruntsyan and A. G. Truscott},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.2095},
year = {2013}
}
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5 pages, 3 figures