Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2010
Publication Title
Physical Review A
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.82.063613
ISSN
2469-9926
Abstract
We show how the momentum distribution of gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates can be shaped by applying a sequence of standing-wave laser pulses. We present a theory, whose validity was demonstrated in an earlier experiment [L. Denget al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 5407 (1999)], of the effect of a two-pulse sequence on the condensate wavefunction in momentum space. We generalize the previous result to the case of N pulses of arbitrary intensity separated by arbitrary intervals and show how these parameters can be engineered to produce a desired final momentum distribution. We find that several momentum distributions, important in atom-interferometry applications, can be engineered with high fidelity with two or three pulses.
Recommended Citation
Edwards, Mark, Brandon Benton, Jeffrey Heward, Charles W. Clark.
2010.
"Momentum-space Engineering of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates."
Physical Review A, 82 (063613): American Physical Society.
doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.063613 source: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.82.063613
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/physics-facpubs/18
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