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Atomic Phase Conjugation From a Bose Condensate
Elena V Goldstein1, Katja Plättner1, Pierre Meystre1
1Optical Sciences Center and Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.
Abstract:
We discuss the possibility of observing atomic phase conjugation from Bose condensates, and using it as a diagnostic tool to access the spatial coherence properties and to measure the lifetime of the condensate. We argue that since phase conjugation results from the scattering of a partial matter wave off the spatial grating produced by two other waves, it offers a natural way to directly measure such properties, and as such provides an attractive alternative to the optical methods proposed in the past.
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