Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlations and multimode dynamics of quenched spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
arXiv:1806.04231 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/aadc74
Abstract
We have studied the interaction between multiple, competing spatial modes that are excited by a quantum quench of an antiferromagnetic spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. We observed Hanbury Brown-Twiss correlations and associated super-Poissonian noise in the mode populations. The decay of these correlations was consistent with experimentally observed spin domain patterns. Data were compared with a real-space Bogoliubov theory as well as numerical solution of the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations that were seeded by quantum noise via the truncated Wigner approximation. The spatial modes that were both observed experimentally and deduced theoretically are intimately connected to the inhomogeneous density profile of the condensate, which imparts many rich features to the dynamics.
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