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arXiv:cond-mat/0006030

Squeezed Condensates

Uffe V. Poulsen, Klaus Mølmer

Published Jun 2, 2000• 0 citations
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Abstract

We analyse the atomic state obtained by photo-dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein-condensate. This process is equivalent to down-conversion in quantum optics where it is responsible for squeezing of the field amplitudes. Monte Carlo simulations derived from the Positive P description of the system, and approximate equations for second moments of the atomic field operators are introduced to describe the early stages of the process -- not amenable to the usual mean-field description.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0006030

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