Tests of Bose-broken Symmetry in Atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates

1996/11/13 by T. Wong, M. J. Collett, Wong, T. +7
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9611101

4 pages, 1 PostScript figure, submitted to PRL

arxiv created 1996/11/13 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

We present an elementary model of the collapses and revivals in the visibility of the interference between two atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. We obtain different predictions of the revival times whether we conserve or break atom number conservation from the outset. The validity of Bose-broken symmetry can be tested by observations of these collapses and revivals.

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