Producing and Detecting Correlated Atoms
Author(s) -
C. I. Westbrook,
M. Schellekens,
A. Perrin,
Valentina Krachmalnicoff,
José VianaGomes,
Jean-Baptiste Trebbia,
Jérôme Estève,
Hong Chang,
Isabelle Bouchoule,
Denis Boiron,
Alain Aspect,
T. Jeltes,
John M. McNamara,
W. Hogervorst,
W. Vassen
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
aip conference proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.177
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1551-7616
pISSN - 0094-243X
DOI - 10.1063/1.2400648
Subject(s) - atom (system on chip) , degenerate energy levels , physics , boson , fermion , atomic physics , interference (communication) , energetic neutral atom , mixing (physics) , quantum mechanics , plasma , computer science , embedded system , computer network , channel (broadcasting)
We discuss experiments to produce and detect atom correlations in adegenerate or nearly degenerate gas of neutral atoms. First we treat the atomicanalog of the celebrated Hanbury Brown Twiss experiment, in which atomcorrelations result simply from interference effects without any atominteractions.We have performed this experiment for both bosons and fermions.Next we show how atom interactions produce correlated atoms using the atomicanalog of spontaneous four-wavemixing. Finally, we briefly mention experimentson a one dimensional gas on an atom chip in which correlation effects due toboth interference and interactions have been observed.Comment: to appear in conference proceedings "Atomic Physics 20
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