Bose-Einstein condensation in the alkali gases: Some fundamental concepts

AJ Leggett - Reviews of modern physics, 2001 - APS
The author presents a tutorial review of some ideas that are basic to our current
understanding of the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in the dilute atomic …

Experiments and theory in cold and ultracold collisions

J Weiner, VS Bagnato, S Zilio, PS Julienne - Reviews of Modern Physics, 1999 - APS
The authors review progress in understanding the nature of atomic collisions occurring at
temperatures ranging from the millidegrees Kelvin to the nanodegrees Kelvin regime. The …

Zener model description of ferromagnetism in zinc-blende magnetic semiconductors

T Dietl, H Ohno, F Matsukura, J Cibert, D Ferrand - science, 2000 - science.org
Ferromagnetism in manganese compound semiconductors not only opens prospects for
tailoring magnetic and spin-related phenomena in semiconductors with a precision specific …

Making, probing and understanding Bose-Einstein condensates

W Ketterle, DS Durfee… - … -Einstein condensation in …, 1999 - ebooks.iospress.nl
The realization of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEe) in dilute atomic gases [1-5] achieved
several long-standing goals. First, neutral atoms were cooled into the lowest energy state …

Coherence, correlations, and collisions: What one learns about Bose-Einstein condensates from their decay

EA Burt, RW Ghrist, CJ Myatt, MJ Holland, EA Cornell… - Physical Review Letters, 1997 - APS
We have used three-body recombination rates as a sensitive probe of the statistical
correlations between atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) and in ultracold …

Observation of a Feshbach resonance in cold atom scattering

P Courteille, RS Freeland, DJ Heinzen… - Physical review …, 1998 - APS
We probe s-wave collisions of laser-cooled 85 Rb (f= 2, mf=− 2) atoms with Zeeman-
resolved photoassociation spectroscopy. We observe that these collisions exhibit a …

Two-particle quantum interference in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers

AM Kaufman, BJ Lester, CM Reynolds, ML Wall… - Science, 2014 - science.org
The quantum statistics of atoms is typically observed in the behavior of an ensemble via
macroscopic observables. However, quantum statistics modifies the behavior of even two …

Microscopic atom optics: from wires to an atom chip

R Folman, P Krüger, J Schmiedmayer… - Advances in atomic …, 2002 - Elsevier
Scientific and technological progress in the last decades has proven that miniaturization and
integration are important steps towards the robust application of fundamental physics, be it …

Quantum superposition states of Bose-Einstein condensates

JI Cirac, M Lewenstein, K Mølmer, P Zoller - Physical Review A, 1998 - APS
We propose a scheme to create a macroscopic “Schrödinger-cat” state formed by two
interacting Bose condensates. In analogy with quantum optics, where the control and …

Resonant Magnetic Field Control of Elastic Scattering in Cold

JL Roberts, NR Claussen, JP Burke Jr, CH Greene… - Physical Review Letters, 1998 - APS
A magnetic field-dependent Feshbach resonance has been observed in the elastic
scattering collision rate between atoms in the F= 2, M=− 2 state of 85 Rb. Changing the …