Light scattering to determine the relative phase of two Bose-Einstein condensates

Science

Volumn 307, Issue 5717, 2005, Pages 1945-1948

  Saba, M ^a   Pasquini, T A ^a   Sanner, C ^a   Shin, Y ^a   Ketterle, W ^a   Pritchard, D E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATOMS; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHASE MEASUREMENT;

ATOM CLOUD RECOMBINING; ATOM CLOUD SPLITTING; ATOM CLOUDS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATES;

GAS CONDENSATES;

SODIUM;

CONDENSATE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ATOM; CAMERA; DIPOLE; ENERGY; GRAVITY; INTERFEROMETRY; LASER; LIGHT SCATTERING; OSCILLATION; PHOTON; PHYSICAL PHASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 15544375728     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1108801     Document Type: Article

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32. This work was funded by the Army Research Office, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NSF, the Office of Naval Research, and NASA. M.S. acknowledges additional support from the Swiss National Science Foundation and C.S. from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. We thank G. Jo for experimental assistance, A. Schirotzek for contributions in the early stage of the work, and M. Zwierlein for a critical reading of the manuscript. We are indebted to A. Leanhardt for stimulating suggestions that initiated this research and insightful comments on the experiment and the manuscript.