Quantum Phase Diffusion of a Bose-Einstein Condensate
- 21 October 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 77 (17), 3489-3493
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.77.3489
Abstract
We discuss the quantum properties of the Bose-Einstein condensate of a dilute gas of atoms in a trap. We show that the phase of the condensate undergoes quantum diffusion which can be detected in far off-resonant light scattering experiments.Keywords
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