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Laser Physics

Raman fingerprints on a spinor BEC

L. Suzanne Leslie, Kevin Wright, N. P. Bigelow

Published Apr 1, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present examples of ring structures that arise in a 87 Rb spinor condensate through the application of Raman laser pulses that couple the internal spin states of the F = 2 ground state manifold. The appearance of fringes within the context of the population transfer dynamics is discussed, and several pulse protocol options are compared.

DOI
10.1134/s1054660x09040100

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