Probing the statistical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates with light
Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v2
Abstract
A scattering of short, weak, nonresonant laser pulses on a Bose-Einstein condensate is proposed as a tool for studying its statistical properties. We show in particular that the variance of the number of scattered photons may distinguish between the Poisson and microcanonical statistics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9912172,
title = {Probing the statistical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates with light},
author = {Z. Idziaszek and K. Rzazewski and M. Lewenstein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9912172},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures; corrected references