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Experimental observation of the Bogoliubov transformation for a Bose-Einstein condensed gas

J. M. Vogels, K. Xu, C. Raman, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, W. Ketterle

cond-mat.softarXiv:cond-mat/0109205

Abstract

Phonons with wavevector q/ were optically imprinted into a Bose-Einstein condensate. Their momentum distribution was analyzed using Bragg spectroscopy with a high momentum transfer. The wavefunction of the phonons was shown to be a superposition of +q and -q free particle momentum states, in agreement with the Bogoliubov quasiparticle picture.

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