Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2011-11-28
Physics
Quantum Physics
17 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
A scheme is proposed, that allows one for performing homodyne detection of the matter-wave field of ultracold bosonic atoms. It is based on a pump-probe lasers setup, that both illuminates a Bose-Einstein condensate, acting as reference system, and a second ultracold gas, composed by the same atoms but in a quantum phase to determine. Photon scattering outcouples atoms from both systems, which then propagate freely. Under appropriate conditions, when the same photon can either be scattered by the Bose-Einstein condensate or by the other quantum gas, both flux of outcoupled atoms and scattered photons exhibit oscillations, whose amplitude is proportional to the condensate fraction of the quantum gas. This setup allows one, for instance, to perform thermometry of a condensate or to monitor the Mott-insulator/superfluid phase transition in optical lattices, and can be extended in order to measure the first-order correlation function of a quantum gas. The dynamics here discussed make use of the entanglement between atoms and photons, which is established by the scattering process, in order to access detailed information on the quantum state of matter.
Morigi Giovanna
Rist Stefan
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