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Nonlinear and quantum atom optics

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  • S. L. Rolston

    (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

  • W. D. Phillips

    (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

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Coherent matter waves in the form of Bose–Einstein condensates have led to the development of nonlinear and quantum atom optics — the de Broglie wave analogues of nonlinear and quantum optics with light. In nonlinear atom optics, four-wave mixing of matter waves and mixing of combinations of light and matter waves have been observed; such progress culminated in the demonstration of phase-coherent matter-wave amplification. Solitons represent another active area in nonlinear atom optics: these non-dispersing propagating modes of the equation that governs Bose–Einstein condensates have been created experimentally, and observed subsequently to break up into vortices. Quantum atom optics is concerned with the statistical properties and correlations of matter-wave fields. A first step in this area is the measurement of reduced number fluctuations in a Bose–Einstein condensate partitioned into a series of optical potential wells.

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  • S. L. Rolston & W. D. Phillips, 2002. "Nonlinear and quantum atom optics," Nature, Nature, vol. 416(6877), pages 219-224, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:416:y:2002:i:6877:d:10.1038_416219a
    DOI: 10.1038/416219a
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    1. Shi, Yu-Ren & Yang, Xue-Ying & Tang, Na & Wang, Deng-Shan, 2018. "Effects of Zeeman field on the dynamical instability of flat states for spin-2 Bose–Einstein condensates in an optical lattice," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 509(C), pages 39-55.

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