Revealing single-trap condensate fragmentation by measuring density-density correlations after time of flight
arXiv:1405.1344 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.140404
Abstract
We consider ultracold bosonic atoms in a single trap in the Thomas-Fermi regime, forming many-body states corresponding to stable macroscopically fragmented two-mode condensates. It is demonstrated that upon free expansion of the gas, the spatial dependence of the density-density correlations at late times provides a unique signature of fragmentation. This hallmark of fragmented condensate many-body states in a single trap is due to the fact that time of flight modifies the correlation signal such that two opposite %with respect to points in the expanding cloud become uncorrelated, in distinction to a nonfragmented Bose-Einstein condensate, where they remain correlated.
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