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Decoherence-driven cooling of a degenerate spinor Bose gas
H J Lewandowski1, J M McGuirk, D M Harber
1JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA.
Physical Review Letters
|December 20, 2003
Abstract:
We investigate the relationship between the coherence of a partially Bose-condensed spinor gas and its temperature. We observe cooling of the normal component driven by decoherence as well as the effect of temperature on decoherence rates.