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Direct Imaging of Laser-driven Ultrafast Molecular Rotation
Published on: February 4, 2017
Observing atom bunching by the Fourier slice theorem
A Blumkin1, S Rinott, R Schley
1Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa 32000, Israel.
Abstract:
By a novel reciprocal space analysis of the measurement, we report a calibrated in situ observation of the bunching effect in a 3D ultracold gas. The calibrated measurement with no free parameters confirms the role of the exchange symmetry and the Hanbury Brown-Twiss effect in the bunching. Also, the enhanced fluctuations of the bunching effect give a quantitative measure of the increased isothermal compressibility. We use 2D images to probe the 3D gas, using the same principle by which computerized tomography reconstructs a 3D image of a body. The powerful reciprocal space technique presented is applicable to systems with one, two, or three dimensions.
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