Probing the statistical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates with light
Abstract
A scattering of short, weak, nonresonant laser pulses on a Bose-Einstein condensate is proposed as a tool for studying its statistical properties. We show in particular that the variance of the number of scattered photons may distinguish between the Poisson and microcanonical statistics.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- May 2000
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.61.053608
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cond-mat/9912172
- Bibcode:
- 2000PhRvA..61e3608I
- Keywords:
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- 03.75.Fi;
- 42.50.Fx;
- 32.80.-t;
- Cooperative phenomena in quantum optical systems;
- Photon interactions with atoms;
- Condensed Matter
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 2 figures