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Suppression and enhancement of impurity scattering in a bose-einstein condensate

Chikkatur, Gorlitz, Dan Stamper-Kurn, S. Inouye, Subhadeep Gupta, Ketterle

Published Jan 1, 2000• 2 citations
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We consider the effects of finite temperature on the scattering of impurity atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate, showing that the scattering rate is enhanced by the thermal atoms. Collisions can increase or decrease the impurity energy. Below the Landau velocity only the first process occurs, i.e., the collisions cool the condensate. Above the critical velocity the dissipative collisions prevail over the cooling ones for sufficiently low temperatures. These considerations are applied to a recent experiment.