Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-2-1999
Publication Title
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
DOI
10.1088/0953-4075/33/1/305
ISSN
1361-6455
Abstract
We study the coherence properties of an atom laser, which operates by extracting atoms from a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate via a two-photon Raman process, by analysing a recent experiment (Hagley et al1999 Phys. Rev. Lett.833112). We obtain good agreement with the experimental data by solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in three dimensions both numerically and with a Thomas-Fermi model. The coherence is strongly affected by the space-dependent phase developed by the condensate when the trapping potential is turned off.
Recommended Citation
Trippenbach, Marek, Y. B. Bland, Mark Edwards, Marya Doery, P. S. Julienne, E. W. Hagley, L. Deng, M. Kozuma, K. Helmerson, S. L. Rolston, W. D. Phillips.
1999.
"Coherence Properties of an Atom Laser."
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 33 (1): 47-54: IOP Publishing.
doi: 10.1088/0953-4075/33/1/305 source: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-4075/33/1/305
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/physics-facpubs/224
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