Comment on “Phase and Phase Diffusion of a Split Bose-Einstein Condensate”
- 10 August 1998
- journal article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 81 (6) , 1344
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.81.1344
Abstract
Recently Javanainen and Wilkens [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4675 (1997)] have analysed an experiment in which an interacting Bose condensate, after being allowed to form in a single potential well, is "cut" by splitting the well adiabatically with a very high potential barrier, and estimate the rate at which, following the cut, the two halves of the condensate lose the "memory" of their relative phase. We argue that, by neglecting the effect of interactions in the initial state before the separation, they have overestimated the rate of phase randomization by a numerical factor which grows with the interaction strength and with the slowness of the separation process.Comment: 2 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. LetKeywords
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