Outcoupling from a Bose-Einstein condensate in the strong-field limit
Abstract
Atoms can be extracted from a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by driving spin-flips to untrapped states. The coherence properties of the BEC are transfered to the released atoms, creating a coherent beam of matter refered to as an atom laser. In this work, the extraction of atoms from a BEC is investigated numerically by solving a coupled set of Gross-Pitaevskii equations in up to three dimensions. The result is compared to experimental data and a semiclassical rate model. In the weak-coupling regime, quantitative agreement is reached between theory and experiment and a semiclassical rate model. In the strong-coupling regime, the atom laser enters a trapped state that manifests itself in a saturation of the rate of out-coupled atoms observed in new experimental data. The semiclassical rate model fails, but the numerical descriptions yield qualitative agreement with experimental data at the onset of saturation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1906.05196,
title = {Outcoupling from a Bose-Einstein condensate in the strong-field limit},
author = {Caroline Arnold and Carola Beck and Peter Federsel and Malte Reinschmidt and József Fortágh and Andreas Günther and Daniel Braun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.05196},
year = {2019}
}