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Sculpting the Vortex State of a Spinor BEC

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We use Raman-detuned laser pulses to achieve spatially-varying control of the amplitude and phase of the spinor order parameter of a Bose-Einstein condensate. We present experimental results confirming precise radial and azimuthal control of amplitude and phase during the creation of vortex-antivortex superposition states.

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@article{arxiv.0812.0973,
  title  = {Sculpting the Vortex State of a Spinor BEC},
  author = {K. C. Wright and L. S. Leslie and A. Hansen and N. P. Bigelow},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.0973},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 6 figures, accepted to PRL

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