Direct Observation of Sub-Poissonian Number Statistics in a Degenerate Bose Gas
arXiv:quant-ph/0508143 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.260403
Abstract
We report the direct observation of sub-Poissonian number fluctuation for a degenerate Bose gas confined in an optical trap. Reduction of number fluctuations below the Poissonian limit is observed for average numbers that range from 300 to 60 atoms.
5 pages, 4 figures