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Bose-Einstein condensates as playgrounds for exploring the quantum vacuum

Christoph Ira Westbrook, Jean-Christophe Jaskula

Published Jun 27, 2011• 0 citations
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I will discuss experiments to observe the production of phonon pairs in temporally modulated Bose-Einstein condensates.

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