Spinor condensates and light scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates
Soft Condensed Matter
2015-06-24 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
These notes discuss two aspects of the physics of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates: optical properties and spinor condensates. The first topic includes light scattering experiments which probe the excitations of a condensate in both the free-particle and phonon regime. At higher light intensity, a new form of superradiance and phase-coherent matter wave amplification were observed. We also discuss properties of spinor condensates and describe studies of ground--state spin domain structures and dynamical studies which revealed metastable excited states and quantum tunneling.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005001,
title = {Spinor condensates and light scattering from Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {Dan M. Stamper-Kurn and Wolfgang Ketterle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005001},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
58 pages, 33 figures, to appear in Proceedings of Les Houches 1999 Summer School, Session LXXII