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Non-equilibrium Microwave Plasma for Efficient High Temperature Chemistry
Published on: August 1, 2017
Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for ultracold quantum gases
M Schellekens1, R Hoppeler, A Perrin
1Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, UMR 8501 du CNRS, Centre Scientifique d'Orsay, Bâtiment 503, 91403 Orsay CEDEX, France.
Abstract:
We have studied two-body correlations of atoms in an expanding cloud above and below the Bose-Einstein condensation threshold. The observed correlation function for a thermal cloud shows a bunching behavior, whereas the correlation is flat for a coherent sample. These quantum correlations are the atomic analog of the Hanbury Brown Twiss effect. We observed the effect in three dimensions and studied its dependence on cloud size.
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