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Squeezed Condensates

Uffe V. Poulsen, Klaus Molmer

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0006030

Abstract

We analyse the atomic state obtained by photo-dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein-condensate. This process is equivalent to down-conversion in quantum optics where it is responsible for squeezing of the field amplitudes. Monte Carlo simulations derived from the Positive P description of the system, and approximate equations for second moments of the atomic field operators are introduced to describe the early stages of the process -- not amenable to the usual mean-field description.

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