Publication Date:
2011-02-01
Description:
Author(s): Michael C. Garrett, Adrian Ratnapala, Eikbert D. van Ooijen, Christopher J. Vale, Kristian Weegink, Sebastian K. Schnelle, Otto Vainio, Norman R. Heckenberg, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, and Matthew J. Davis We study the formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a cigar-shaped three-dimensional harmonic trap, induced by the controlled addition of an attractive “dimple” potential along the weak axis. In this manner we are able to induce condensation without cooling due to a localized increase in the... [Phys. Rev. A 83, 013630] Published Mon Jan 31, 2011
Keywords:
Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules
Print ISSN:
1050-2947
Electronic ISSN:
1094-1622
Topics:
Physics
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