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Interference of an array of independent Bose-Einstein condensates

Zoran Hadzibabic, Sabine Stock, Baptiste Battelier, Vincent Bretin, Jean Dalibard

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0405113

Abstract

We have observed high-contrast matter wave interference between 30 Bose-Einstein condensates with uncorrelated phases. Interference patterns were observed after independent condensates were released from a one-dimensional optical lattice and allowed to expand and overlap. This initially surprising phenomenon is explained with a simple theoretical model which generalizes the analysis of the interference of two independent condensates.

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