Abstract
Collisions lead to the collapse and revival of the interference fringes between two atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. We study the collapses and revivals of the relative phase between the condensates for two different initial states. One state invokes Bose-broken symmetry allowing us to write the wavefunction as a superposition of total number (of both condensates) states whereas the other does not.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 2393-2396 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences |
Volume | 355 |
Issue number | 1733 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 15 1997 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Mathematics
- General Engineering
- General Physics and Astronomy