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Rotons in gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates irradiated by a laser

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

A gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) irradiated by a far off-resonance laser has long-range interatomic correlations caused by laser-induced dipole-dipole interactions. These correlations, which are tunable via the laser intensity and frequency, can produce a `roton' minimum in the excitation spectrum--behavior reminiscent of the strongly correlated superfluid liquid helium II.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0301028,
  title  = {Rotons in gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates irradiated by a laser},
  author = {D. H. J. O'Dell and S. Giovanazzi and G. Kurizki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0301028},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, includes 3 figures