scholarly journals Free expansion of a Bose–Einstein condensate in the presence of a thermal cloud

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (10) ◽  
pp. 105303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Gawryluk ◽  
Mirosław Brewczyk ◽  
Mariusz Gajda ◽  
Kazimierz Rzążewski
2002 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Morsch ◽  
M. Cristiani ◽  
J. H. Müller ◽  
D. Ciampini ◽  
E. Arimondo

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (02) ◽  
pp. 1750007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elías Castellanos ◽  
Celia Escamilla-Rivera

In this paper, we present a theoretical and numerical analysis of the free expansion of a Bose–Einstein condensate, where we assume that the single particle energy spectrum is deformed due to a possible quantum structure of spacetime. Also, we consider the presence of interparticle interactions in order to study more realistic and specific scenarios. The modified free velocity expansion of the condensate leads in a natural way to a modification of the uncertainty principle, which allows us to investigate some possible features of the Planck scale regime in low-energy earth-based experiments.


1998 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 719-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. Ernst ◽  
J. Schuster ◽  
F. Schreck ◽  
A. Marte ◽  
A. Kuhn ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Lu ◽  
W A van Wijngaarden

The apparatus and procedure required to generate a pure Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) consisting of about half a million 87Rb atoms at a temperature of <60 nK with a phase density of >54 is described. The atoms are first laser cooled in a vapour cell magneto-optical trap (MOT) and subsequently transferred to an ultra-low pressure MOT. The atoms are loaded into a QUIC trap consisting of a pair of quadrupole coils and a Ioffe coil that generates a small finite magnetic field at the trap energy minimum to suppress Majorana transitions. Evaporation induced by an RF field lowers the temperature permitting the transition to BEC to be observed by monitoring the free expansion of the atoms after the trapping fields have been switched off.PACS Nos.: 03.75.Fi, 05.30.Jp, 32.80.Pj, 64.60.–i


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