Producing and Detecting Correlated atoms
Quantum Physics
2016-08-16 v1
Abstract
We discuss experiments to produce and detect atom correlations in a degenerate or nearly degenerate gas of neutral atoms. First we treat the atomic analog of the celebrated Hanbury Brown Twiss experiment, in which atom correlations result simply from interference effects without any atom interactions.We have performed this experiment for both bosons and fermions. Next we show how atom interactions produce correlated atoms using the atomic analog of spontaneous four-wavemixing. Finally, we briefly mention experiments on a one dimensional gas on an atom chip in which correlation effects due to both interference and interactions have been observed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0609019,
title = {Producing and Detecting Correlated atoms},
author = {Christoph I. Westbrook and Martijn Schellekens and Aurélien Perrin and Valentina Krachmalnicoff and Jose Carlos Viana Gomes and Jean-Baptiste Trebbia and Jérôme Estève and Hong Chang and Isabelle Bouchoule and Denis Boiron and Alain Aspect and Tom Jeltes and John McNamara and Wim Hogervorst and Wim Vassen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0609019},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
to appear in conference proceedings "Atomic Physics 20"