Minimally destructive, Doppler measurement of a quantized flow in a ring-shaped Bose–Einstein condensate

Autor: A Kumar, N Anderson, W D Phillips, S Eckel, G K Campbell, S Stringari
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: New Journal of Physics, Vol 18, Iss 2, p 025001 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1367-2630
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/18/2/025001
Popis: The Doppler effect, the shift in the frequency of sound due to motion, is present in both classical gases and quantum superfluids. Here, we perform an in situ , minimally destructive measurement, of the persistent current in a ring-shaped, superfluid Bose–Einstein condensate using the Doppler effect. Phonon modes generated in this condensate have their frequencies Doppler shifted by a persistent current. This frequency shift will cause a standing-wave phonon mode to be ‘dragged’ along with the persistent current. By measuring this precession, one can extract the background flow velocity. This technique will find utility in experiments where the winding number is important, such as in emerging ‘atomtronic’ devices.
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