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Enhancement and suppression of spontaneous emission and light scattering by quantum degeneracy
A. Gorlitz, A. P. Chikkatur, W. Ketterle
Quantum degeneracy modifies light scattering and spontaneous emission. For fermions, Pauli blocking leads to a suppression of both processes. In contrast, in a weakly interacting B…
Excitation of phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate by light scattering
D. M. Stamper-Kurn, A. P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz +4
Stimulated small-angle light scattering was used to measure the structure factor of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the phonon regime. The excitation strength for phonons was found t…
Quantum tunneling across spin domains in a Bose-Einstein condensate
D. M. Stamper-Kurn, H. -J. Miesner, A. P. Chikkatur +3
Quantum tunneling was observed in the decay of metastable spin domains in gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates. A mean-field description of the tunneling was developed and compared wi…
Bragg spectroscopy of a Bose-Einstein condensate
J. Stenger, S. Inouye, A. P. Chikkatur +3
Properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate were studied by stimulated, two-photon Bragg scattering. The high momentum and energy resolution of this method allowed a spectroscopic mea…
Observation of metastable states in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates
H. -J. Miesner, D. M. Stamper-Kurn, J. Stenger +3
Bose-Einstein condensates have been prepared in long-lived metastable excited states. Two complementary types of metastable states were observed. The first is due to the immiscibil…
Optical Confinement of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
D. M. Stamper-Kurn, M. R. Andrews, A. P. Chikkatur +4
Bose-Einstein condensates of sodium atoms have been confined in an optical dipole trap using a single focused infrared laser beam. This eliminates the restrictions of magnetic trap…