Near-resonant spatial images of confined Bose-Einstein condensates in a 4-Dee magnetic bottle

1998/04/24 by Lene Vestergaard Hau, B. D. Busch, Chien Liu +3 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Frequency and Time Standards #Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #cond-mat

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.58.r54

published as Physical Review A, v58(1998) p.R54 · 15 pages, 3 figures. Submitted 10/30/97, accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A Rapid Comm

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Abstract

We present quantitative measurements of the spatial density profile of Bose-Einstein condensates of sodium atoms confined in a 4-Dee magnetic bottle. The condensates are imaged in transmission with near-resonant laser light. We demonstrate that the Thomas-Fermi surface of a condensate can be determined to better than 1%. More generally, we obtain excellent agreement with mean-field theory. We conclude that precision measurements of atomic scattering lengths and interactions between phase-separated cold atoms in a harmonic trap can be performed with high precision using this method.

Citations

• Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Dilute Atomic Vapor

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