Decoherence and dephasing in strongly driven colliding bose-einstein condensates

N. Katz*, R. Ozeri, E. Rowen, E. Gershnabel, N. Davidson

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Abstract

A series of measurements of decoherence and wave-packet dephasing between two colliding, strongly coupled, identical Bose-Einstein condensates was reported. A suppression of the mean-field shift was measured in the strong-excitation regime. The suppression was explained by applying the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional. The oscillations for which both inhomogeneous and Doppler broadening were strongly suppressed were observed by selectively counting only the nondecohered fraction in a time-of-flight image. It was observed that collisions can be extracted if no post-selection is used.

Original languageEnglish
Article number033615
Pages (from-to)033615-1-033615-5
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume70
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2004
Externally publishedYes

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Funding Information:
PRLTAO 0031-9007 10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.270405 87 , 270405 ( 2001 ). This work was supported in part by the Israel Ministry of Science, the Israel Science Foundation, and the Minerva Foundation.

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