Coherently Scattering Atoms from an Excited Bose-Einstein Condensate

Details Coherently Scattering Atoms from an Excited Bose-Einstein Condensate Coherently Scattering Atoms from an Excited Bose-Einstein Condensate

1999-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9907169v1

Phys.Rev.A62,013605,2000

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages of ReVTeX and 2 postscript figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.62.013605

We consider scattering atoms from a fully Bose-Einstein condensed gas. If we take these atoms to be identical to those in the Bose-Einstein condensate, this scattering process is to a large extent analogous to Andreev reflection from the interface between a superconducting and a normal metal. We determine the scattering wave function both in the absence and the presence of a vortex. Our results show a qualitative difference between these two cases that can be understood as due to an Aharonov-Bohm effect. It leads to the possibility to experimentally detect and study vortices in this way.

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