Article

Instability of a Bose condensate of neutral atoms in an external light field of nonuniform intensity

I. E. MazetsA. F. Ioffe Physicotechnical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg

Technical Physics Lettersjournal1999en

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Abstract

The existence of a new of type of instability of a Bose condensate in a rarefied atomic gas due to momentum exchange with an external resonant spatially nonuniform radiation field is demonstrated theoretically.

Topics

Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates Quantum optics and atomic interactions Quantum Mechanics and Applications

Identifiers

DOI: 10.1134/1.1262486

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