Phase conjugation of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

Details Phase conjugation of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates Phase conjugation of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

1998-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9806165v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.59.1509

We consider a multicomponent atomic Bose-Einstein condensate optically trapped in a far-off resonant dipole trap. Drawing an analogy with the optical situation, we show that this system can be regarded as an matter-wave analog of optical multiwave mixing. We concentrate specifically on condenstates in the hyperfine ground state F=1, in which case a simple analogy with optical four-wave mixing can be established. This opens up the way to realize matter-wave phase conjugation, whereby an atomic beam can be ``time-reversed.'' In addition to transfering population between a "central" mode and incident and retroreflecting beams, matter-wave phase conjugation also offers novel diagnostic tools to study the coherence properties of condensates, as well as to measure the relative scattering lengths of hyperfine sublevels.

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