Skip to content

Bragg spectroscopy with an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate

R. Geursen, N. R. Thomas, A. C. Wilson

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/0307224

Abstract

We present the results of Bragg spectroscopy performed on an accelerating Bose-Einstein condensate. The Bose condensate undergoes circular micro-motion in a magnetic TOP trap and the effect of this motion on the Bragg spectrum is analyzed. A simple frequency modulation model is used to interpret the observed complex structure, and broadening effects are considered using numerical solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.

Create a lesson