Near-Resonant Spatial Images of Confined Bose-Einstein Condensates in a 4-Dee Magnetic Bottle
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Busch, B. D.
Liu, Chien
Dutton, Zachary
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Hau, Lene Vestergaard, B. D. Busch, Chien Liu, Zachary Dutton, Michael M. Burns, and J. A. Golovchenko. 1998. Near-resonant spatial images of confined Bose-Einstein condensates in a 4-dee magnetic bottle. Physical Review A 58(1): R54-R57.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.Other Sources
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