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Studying a dual-species BEC with tunable interactions

Other Condensed Matter 2008-02-20 v1

Abstract

We report on the observation of controllable spatial separation in a dual-species Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with 85^{85}Rb and 87^{87}Rb. Interparticle interactions between the different components can change the miscibility of the two quantum fluids. In our experiments, we clearly observe the immiscible nature of the two simultaneously Bose-condensed species via their spatial separation. Furthermore the 85^{85}Rb Feshbach resonance near 155 G is used to change them between miscible and immiscible by tuning the 85^{85}Rb scattering length. Our apparatus is also able to create 85^{85}Rb condensates with up to 8×1048\times10^4 atoms which represents a significant improvement over previous work.

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@article{arxiv.0802.2591,
  title  = {Studying a dual-species BEC with tunable interactions},
  author = {S. B. Papp and J. M. Pino and C. E. Wieman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.2591},
  year   = {2008}
}
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