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Non-equilibrium coherence dynamics of a soft boson lattice
We study the non-equilibrium evolution of the phase coherence of a
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one dimensional optical lattice, as the
lattice is suddenly quenched from an insulating to a superfluid state. We
observe slowly damped phase coherence oscillations in the regime of large
filling factor (~100 bosons per site) at a frequency proportional to the
generalized Josephson frequency. The truncated Wigner approximation (TWA)
predicts the frequency of the observed oscillations.Comment: 10 pages. 4 figure
How to measure the wave-function absolute squared of a moving particle by using mirrors
We consider a slow particle with wave function , moving
freely in some direction. A mirror is briefly switched on around a time and
its position is scanned. It is shown that the measured reflection probability
then allows the determination of . Experimentally
available atomic mirrors should make this method applicable to the
center-of-mass wave function of atoms with velocities in the cm/s range.Comment: 4 pages, 5 figure
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