Phase and Phase Diffusion of a Split Bose-Einstein Condensate
- 23 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 78 (25) , 4675-4678
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.78.4675
Abstract
We analyze theoretically an experiment in which a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate is cut in half, and the parts are subsequently allowed to interfere. If the delay between cutting and atom detection is small, the interference pattern of the two halves of the condensate is the same in every experiment. However, for longer delays the spatial phase of the interference shows random fluctuations from one experiment to the other. This phase diffusion is characterized quantitatively.Keywords
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