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arXiv:1104.1871 · Physical Review Letters

Limit of Spin Squeezing in Finite-Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates

Alice Sinatra, Emilia Witkowska, Jean-Christophe Dornstetter, Yun Li, Yvan Castin

Published Aug 3, 2011• 39 citations
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Abstract

We show that, at finite temperature, the maximum spin squeezing achievable using interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates has a finite limit when the atom number N→∞ at fixed density and interaction strength. We calculate the limit of the squeezing parameter for a spatially homogeneous system and show that it is bounded from above by the initial noncondensed fraction.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.107.060404

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