Interference of an array of independent Bose-Einstein condensates with fixed number of atoms

DOI10.1142/S0219749911007393MaRDI QIDQ3004752zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Satoshi Ando, K. Yuasa, Mauro Iazzi

Publication date 3 June 2011

Published in International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.0295

zbMATH Keywords

interferencesnapshotBose-Einstein condensationspontaneous symmetry breakingHanbury Brown and Twiss effect

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Atomic physics (81V45) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B24)

Abstract: Interference of an array of independent Bose-Einstein condensates, whose experiment has been performed recently, is theoretically studied in detail. Even if the number of the atoms in each gas is kept finite and the phases of the gases are not well defined, interference fringes are observed on each snapshot. The statistics of the snapshot interference patterns, i.e., the average fringe amplitudes and their fluctuations (covariance), are computed analytically, and concise formulas for their asymptotic values for long time of flight are derived. Processes contributing to these quantities are clarified and the relationship with the description on the basis of the symmetry-breaking scenario is revealed.

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