1998/08/11 by Eric Cornell, E. A. Cornell, D. S. Hall +6 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Condensed Matter (cond-mat) #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #cond-mat
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9808105
15 pages, 6 figures
openalex publication_date 1998/08/11 · arxiv created 1998/08/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We have begun a series of experiments on mixed bosonic quantum fluids. Our system is mixed Bose-Einstein condensates in dilute Rb-87. By simultaneously trapping the atoms in two different hyperfine states, we are able to study the dynamics of component separation and of the relative quantum phase of two interpenetrating condensates. Population can be converted from one state to the other at a rate that is sensitive to the relative phase.