Collective excitations of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate

We have measured the effect of dipole-dipole interactions on the frequency of a collective mode of a Bose-Einstein condensate. At relatively large numbers of atoms, the experimental measurements are in good agreement with zero temperature theoretical predictions based on the Thomas-Fermi approach. E...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 105; no. 4; p. 040404
Main Authors Bismut, G, Pasquiou, B, Maréchal, E, Pedri, P, Vernac, L, Gorceix, O, Laburthe-Tolra, B
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 23.07.2010
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Summary:We have measured the effect of dipole-dipole interactions on the frequency of a collective mode of a Bose-Einstein condensate. At relatively large numbers of atoms, the experimental measurements are in good agreement with zero temperature theoretical predictions based on the Thomas-Fermi approach. Experimental results obtained for the dipolar shift of a collective mode show a larger dependency to both the trap geometry and the atom number than the ones obtained when measuring the modification of the condensate aspect ratio due to dipolar forces. These findings are in good agreement with simulations based on a Gaussian ansatz.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.105.040404