Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR)

Controllable Majorana Transition in Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensate

Xuzong Chen, Lin Xia, Xu Xu, F. Yang, Wei Xiong, Juntao Li, Qianli Ma, Lin Yi, Xiaoji Zhou, Hong Mei Guo

Published Aug 1, 2007• 0 citations

Abstract

Controllable Majorana transition in spinor BEC system has been realized by altering the direction of magnetic field, which can be manipulated by adjusting the turn-off time of the trap coils. In addition, multicomponent pulsed atom laser can also be generated by controllable Majorana transition process.

DOI: 10.1109/cleopr.2007.4391553

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