Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-03-09
Physical Review A 84 (2011) 053637
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
26 pages, 6 figures; part of the numerics redone
Scientific paper
We propose a method to measure the normal fraction of a two-dimensional Bose gas, a quantity that generally differs from the non-condensed fraction. The idea is based on applying a spatially oscillating artificial gauge field to the atoms. The response of the atoms to the gauge field can be read out either mechanically from the deposited energy into the cloud, or optically from the macroscopic optical properties of the atomic gas. The local nature of the proposed scheme allows one to reconstruct the spatial profile of the superfluid component; furthermore, the proposed method does not require having established thermal equilibrium in the gas in the presence of the gauge field. The theoretical description of the system is based on a generalization of the Dum-Olshanii theory of artificial gauge fields to the interacting many-body context. The efficiency of the proposed measurement scheme is assessed by means of classical field numerical simulations. An explicit atomic level scheme minimizing disturbing effects such as spontaneous emission and light-shifts is proposed for Rb 87 atoms.
Carusotto Iacopo
Castin Yvan
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