Phase preparation by atom counting of Bose-Einstein condensates in mixed states

Details Phase preparation by atom counting of Bose-Einstein condensates in mixed states Phase preparation by atom counting of Bose-Einstein condensates in mixed states

1997-04-18

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9704036v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, 6 PostScript figure, submitted to PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.57.493

We study the build up of quantum coherence between two Bose-Einstein condensates which are initially in mixed states. We consider in detail the two cases where each condensate is initially in a thermal or a Poisson distribution of atom number. Although initially there is no relative phase between the condensates, a sequence of spatial atom detections produces an interference pattern with arbitrary but fixed relative phase. The visibility of this interference pattern is close to one for the Poisson distribution of two condensates with equal counting rates but it becomes a stochastic variable in the thermal case, where the visibility will vary from run to run around an average visibility of $\pi /4.$ In both cases, the variance of the phase distribution is inversely proportional to the number of atom detections in the regime where this number is large compared to one but small compared with the total number of atoms in the condensates.

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