A Primary Noise Thermometer for Ultracold Bose Gases

Details A Primary Noise Thermometer for Ultracold Bose Gases A Primary Noise Thermometer for Ultracold Bose Gases

2006-06-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606281v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

19 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/8/9/189

We discuss in detail the experimental investigation of thermally induced fluctuations of the relative phase between two weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. In analogy to superconducting Josephson junctions, the weak coupling originates from a tunneling process through a potential barrier which is obtained by trapping the condensates in an optical double-well potential. The observed fluctuations of the relative phase are in quantitative agreement with a many body two mode model at finite temperature. The agreement demonstrates the possibility of using the phase fluctuation measurements in a bosonic Josephson junction as a primary thermometer. This new method allows for measuring temperatures far below the critical temperature where standard methods based on time of flight measurements fail. We employ this new thermometer to probe the heat capacity of a degenerate Bose gas as a function of temperature.

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