Year: 2006
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: We discuss experiments to produce and detect atom correlations in a degenerate or nearly degenerate gas of neutral atoms. First we treat the atomic analog of the celebrated Hanbury Brown Twiss experiment, in which atom correlations result simply from interference effects without any atom interactions. We have performed this experiment for both bosons and fermions. Next we show how atom interactions produce correlated atoms using the atomic analog of spontaneous four‐wave mixing. Finally, we briefly mention experiments on a one dimensional gas on an atom chip in which correlation effects due to both interference and interactions have been observed.
Source: AIP conference proceedings
DOI: 10.1063/1.2400648
Authors: C. I. Westbrook, M. Schellekens, A. Perrin, V. Krachmalnicoff, J. Viana Gomes, J.-B. Trebbia, J. Estève, H. Chang, I. Bouchoule, D. Boiron, A. Aspect, T. Jeltes, J. McNamara, W. Hogervorst, W. Vassen
Institutions: Laboratoire Charles Fabry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1491630288