https://doi.org/10.1007/s100530050263
Coherent population trapping of Bose-Einstein condensates: Detection of phase diffusion
Department of Physics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New
Zealand
Received:
29
June
1998
Revised:
10
October
1998
Accepted:
19
October
1998
Published online: 15 March 1999
Two Bose-Einstein condensates in different Zeeman sublevels can be decoupled from driving light fields in coherent population trapping. A condensate pair with a deterministic entanglement and a controllable value of the relative phase may be prepared by selecting the phase difference between the coherent light fields. The rate of the condensate phase diffusion may be determined from the two-photon resonant absorption of radiation.
PACS: 03.75.Fi – Phase coherent atomic ensemble (Bose condensation) / 42.50.Gy – Effects of atomic coherence on propagation, absorption, and amplification of light / 05.30.Jp – Boson systems
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica, Springer-Verlag, 1999
