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Continuous Observation of Interference Fringes from Bose Condensates

J. I. Cirac, C. W. Gardiner, M. Naraschewski, P. Zoller

atom-pharXiv:atom-ph/9606004

Abstract

We use continuous measurement theory to describe the evolution of two Bose condensates in an interference experiment. It is shown how the system evolves in a single run of the experiment into a state with a fixed relative phase, while the total gauge symmetry remains unbroken. Thus, an interference pattern is exhibited without violating atom number conservation.

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