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arXiv:1711.08886 · Physical Review A

Bogoliubov-Cherenkov radiation in an atom laser

B. M. Henson, Xuguang Yue, Sean S. Hodgman, D. K. Shin, Lev A. Smirnov, Elena A. Ostrovskaya, X. W. Guan, Andrew G. Truscott

Published Jun 4, 2018• 14 citations
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Abstract

We develop a simple yet powerful technique to study Bogoliubov-Cherenkov radiation by producing a pulsed atom laser from a strongly confined Bose-Einstein condensate. Such radiation results when the atom laser pulse falls past a Bose-Einstein condensate at high-hypersonic speeds, modifying the spatial profile to display a characteristic twin jet structure and a complicated interference pattern. The experimental observations are in excellent agreement with mean-field numerical simulations and an analytic theory. Due to the highly hypersonic regime reached in our experiment, this system offers a highly controllable platform for future studies of condensed-matter analogs of quantum electrodynamics at ultrarelativistic speeds.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.97.063601

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In this thesis, we study the diffraction processes of a Bose-Einstein condensate of 87Rb atoms and outline our progress toward the realisation of an atom laser. The experiments are carried out with a condensate that is produced ‘all-optically’; this is covered in the first part of the thesis. For our diffraction processes, we expose the condensate to an intense, pulsed optical standing wave. We perform mean energy measurements and interpret our results with two different theories: one treating the condensed atoms as particles, the other focusing on the atoms’ wave properties. The first interpretation requires knowledge of the theoretical background of the atom-optics -kicked rotor (AOKR); in our experiments, we focus on the resonances in the early-time behaviour of the kicked atoms. The second interpretation retrieves an observation of the temporal Talbot effect—the atomic analogue to the optical Talbot effect. From this point of view, the full resonances represent the integer Talbot effect, whereas the early-time behaviour corresponds to the observation of the fractional Talbot effect. We find for both theoretical interpretations an excellent qualitative agreement between our experimental results and the results of our computer simulation of the AOKR. Furthermore, we outline our future work on the realisation of an atom laser as a tool for coherence measurements of the condensate via atom-counting statistics. In this context, the most current progress in our laboratory is given. We aim for a Bragg-scattering process of our condensate as a modified version of our prospective outcoupling technique for the atom laser; this process is modelled in a semi-classical approach, and our first experimental implementations are presented.
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A pulsed atom laser derived from a Bose-Einstein condensate is used to probe a second target condensate. The target condensate scatters the incident atom laser pulse. From the spatial distribution of scattered atoms, one can infer important properties of the target condensate and its interaction with the probe pulse. As an example, we measure the s-wave scattering length that, in low energy collisions, describes the interaction between the |F = 1,m(F) = -1) and |F = 2,m(F) = 0) hyperfine ground states in (87)Rb.
Emission of matter wave jets has been recently observed in a Bose-Einstein condensate confined by a cylindrical box potential, induced by a periodically modulated inter-particle interaction (Nature {\bf 551}, 356 (2017)). In this letter we apply the number-conserving time-dependent Bogoliubov theory to study the highly non-equilibrium quantum dynamics in this system. Without any fitting parameter, our theoretical calculations on the dynamics of the jet emission and the angular density correlation are in excellent quantitative agreement with the experimental measurements. In particular, our theory interprets the angular density correlation of the jets as the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss effect between the excited quasi-particles with different angular momenta, and this explains the puzzling observation of the asymmetric density correlations between the jets with the same and opposite momenta. We also analytically show that the number of atoms in the jet emission increases quadratically at early times and is followed by an exponential growth at later times.