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Coherent Backscattering of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Two-Dimensional Disorder Potentials
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Hartung, Michael, Wellens, Thomas, Müller, Cord A.
, Richter, Klaus and Schlagheck, Peter
(2008)
Coherent Backscattering of Bose-Einstein Condensates in Two-Dimensional Disorder Potentials.
Physical Review Letters (PRL) 101 (2), 020603.
DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.7814
Abstract
We study quantum transport of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a two-dimensional disorder potential. In the limit of a vanishing atom-atom interaction, a sharp cone in the angle-resolved density of the scattered matter wave is observed, arising from constructive interference between amplitudes propagating along reversed scattering paths. Weak interaction transforms this coherent ...
We study quantum transport of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a two-dimensional disorder potential. In the limit of a vanishing atom-atom interaction, a sharp cone in the angle-resolved density of the scattered matter wave is observed, arising from constructive interference between amplitudes propagating along reversed scattering paths. Weak interaction transforms this coherent backscattering peak into a pronounced dip, indicating destructive instead of constructive interference. We reproduce this result, obtained from the numerical integration of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, by a diagrammatic theory of weak localization in the presence of nonlinearity.
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| Item type | Article | ||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review Letters (PRL) | ||||||||||
| Publisher | AMER PHYSICAL SOC | ||||||||||
| Place of Publication | COLLEGE PK | ||||||||||
| Volume | 101 | ||||||||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter | 2 | ||||||||||
| Page Range | 020603 | ||||||||||
| Date | 11 July 2008 | ||||||||||
| Date of publication | 05 Aug 2009 13:57 | ||||||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter | ||||||||||
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| Keywords | WEAK-LOCALIZATION; ANDERSON LOCALIZATION; MEDIA; WAVES; LIGHT; | ||||||||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-78141 | ||||||||||
| Item ID | 7814 |
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