Publication Date:
2011-08-23
Description:
Author(s): M. Egorov, R. P. Anderson, V. Ivannikov, B. Opanchuk, P. Drummond, B. V. Hall, and A. I. Sidorov We observe the coherence of an interacting two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) surviving for seconds in a trapped Ramsey interferometer. Mean-field-driven collective oscillations of two components lead to periodic dephasing and rephasing of condensate wave functions with a slow decay of the... [Phys. Rev. A 84, 021605] Published Mon Aug 22, 2011
Keywords:
Matter waves and collective properties of cold atoms and molecules
Print ISSN:
1050-2947
Electronic ISSN:
1094-1622
Topics:
Physics