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Feshbach-resonance-induced atomic filamentation and quantum pair correlation in atom-laser-beam propagation
Weiping Zhang1, Chris P Search, Han Pu
1Optical Sciences Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|May 7, 2003
Abstract:
We study the propagation of an atom laser beam through a spatial region with a magnetic field tuned around a Feshbach resonance. Magnetic fields below the resonance produce an effective focusing Kerr medium that causes a modulational instability of the atomic beam. Under appropriate circumstances, this results in beam breakup and filamentation seeded by quasiparticle fluctuations and in the generation of correlated atomic pairs.