Spin-dependent inelastic collisions in spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates

Details Spin-dependent inelastic collisions in spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates Spin-dependent inelastic collisions in spin-2 Bose-Einstein condensates

2009-09-02

arxiv.org/abs/0909.0489v2

Phys. Rev. A 80, 042704 (2009)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

7 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042704

We studied spin-dependent two-body inelastic collisions in F=2 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensates both experimentally and theoretically. The 87Rb condensates were confined in an optical trap and selectively prepared in various spin states in the F=2 manifold at a magnetic field of 3.0 G. Measured atom loss rates are found to depend on spin states of colliding atoms. We measured two fundamental loss coefficients for two-body inelastic collisions with the total spin of 0 and 2; the coefficients determine loss rates for all the spin pairs. The experimental results for mixtures of all the spin combinations are in good agreement with numerical solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equations that include the effect of a magnetic field gradient.

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