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Coherently Scattering Atoms from an Excited Bose-Einstein Condensate
We consider scattering atoms from a fully Bose-Einstein condensed gas. If we
take these atoms to be identical to those in the Bose-Einstein condensate, this
scattering process is to a large extent analogous to Andreev reflection from
the interface between a superconducting and a normal metal. We determine the
scattering wave function both in the absence and the presence of a vortex. Our
results show a qualitative difference between these two cases that can be
understood as due to an Aharonov-Bohm effect. It leads to the possibility to
experimentally detect and study vortices in this way.Comment: 5 pages of ReVTeX and 2 postscript figure