Density Correlations in Cold Atomic Gases: Atomic Speckles in the Presence of Disorder

Details Density Correlations in Cold Atomic Gases: Atomic Speckles in the Presence of Disorder Density Correlations in Cold Atomic Gases: Atomic Speckles in the Presence of Disorder

2008-01-31

arxiv.org/abs/0801.4858v2

Phys. Rev. A 77, 033624 (2008)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

8 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033624

The phenomenon of random intensity patterns, for waves propagating in the presence of disorder, is well known in optics and in mesoscopic physics. We study this phenomenon for cold atomic gases expanding, by a diffusion process, in a weak random potential. We show that the density-density correlation function of the expanding gas is strongly affected by disorder and we estimate the typical size of a speckle spot, i.e., a region of enhanced or depleted density. Both a Fermi gas and a Bose-Einstein condensate (in a mean field approach) are considered.

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