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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Spatially selective bragg scattering: a signature for vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates
1Department of Physics, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Abstract:
We demonstrate that Bragg scattering from a condensate can be sensitive to the spatial phase distribution of the initial state. This allows preferential scattering from a selected spatial region, and provides a robust signature for a vortex state. We develop an analytic model which accurately describes this phenomenon, and we give quantitative predictions for current experimental conditions.
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