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Physical Review A

Transferring the atom statistics of a Bose-Einstein condensate to an optical field

Christopher P. Search, P. R. Berman

Published Sep 12, 2001• 7 citations
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Abstract

We consider a single-mode Bose-Einstein condensate with an arbitrary initial density matrix. This mode is coupled to another condensate mode via a quantized optical-field. We describe a method for transferring the diagonal elements of the initial density matrix in a number state basis to the optical-field's density matrix.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.64.043602

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