Modern Physics Letters B

ATOM-OPTICAL BISTABILITY IN TRAPPED BOSE–EINSTEIN CONDENSATES

Zeng‐Bing Chen

Published Jan 10, 2000• 5 citations

Abstract

The close similarities between nonlinear optics and nonlinear atom optics motivate us to demonstrate the possibility of atom-optical bistability for a trapped Bose–Einstein condensate. Driven by an intense, coherent input matter wave, the trapped Bose–Einstein condensate might display the bistability when the Born–Markov master equation for the condensate mode is used. The atom-optical bistability provides a way to control atom lasers with atom lasers.

DOI: 10.1142/s0217984900000069

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