Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-05-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
5 pages, 5 figures, author list updated
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.220403
We study low momentum excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate using a novel matter-wave interference technique. In time-of-flight expansion images we observe strong matter-wave fringe patterns. The fringe contrast is a sensitive spectroscopic probe of in-trap phonons and is explained by use of a Bogoliubov excitation projection method applied to the rescaled order parameter of the expanding condensate. Gross-Pitaevskii simulations agree with the experimental data and confirm the validity of the theoretical interpretation. We show that the high sensitivity of this detection scheme gives access to the quantized quasiparticle regime.
Dalfovo Franco
Davidson Nir
Katz Nets
Ozeri Roee
Steinhauer Jeff
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