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Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3358–3361 (1999)

Watching a Superfluid Untwist Itself: Recurrence of Rabi Oscillations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

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M. R. Matthews, B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, D. S. Hall, M. J. Holland, J. E. Williams, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell*
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440

Received 16 June 1999; published in the issue dated 25 October 1999

The order parameter of a condensate with two internal states can continuously distort in such a way as to remove twists that have been imposed along its length. We observe this effect experimentally in the collapse and recurrence of Rabi oscillations in a magnetically trapped, two-component Bose-Einstein condensate of 87Rb.

© 1999 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3358
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3358
PACS:
03.75.Fi, 42.50.Md, 67.57.Fg, 67.90.+z

*Quantum Physics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology.

 
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