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Probing the statistical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates with light

Z. Idziaszek, K. Rzazewski, M. Lewenstein

cond-matarXiv:cond-mat/9912172

Abstract

A scattering of short, weak, nonresonant laser pulses on a Bose-Einstein condensate is proposed as a tool for studying its statistical properties. We show in particular that the variance of the number of scattered photons may distinguish between the Poisson and microcanonical statistics.

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