arXiv:cond-mat/0109205 · Physical Review Letters
Experimental Observation of the Bogoliubov Transformation for a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas
J. M. M. J. Vogels, K. Xu, Chandra Raman, J. R. Abo-Shaeer, Wolfgang Ketterle
Abstract
Phonons with wave vector q/(planck constant) were optically imprinted into a Bose-Einstein condensate. Their momentum distribution was analyzed using Bragg spectroscopy with a high momentum transfer. The wave function of the phonons was shown to be a superposition of +q and -q free particle momentum states, in agreement with the Bogoliubov quasiparticle picture.