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Critical correlations in an ultracold Bose gas revealed by means of a temporal Talbot-Lau interferometer
We study experimentally the critical correlation in an ultra-cold Bose gas
with a temporal Talbot-Lau (TL) interferometer. Near the critical temperature,
we observe a bi-modal density distribution in an ultra-cold Bose gas after the
application of the TL interferometer. The measured fraction of the narrower
peak in the density distribution displays a clear peak within the critical
regime. The peak position agrees with the critical temperature calculated with
the finite-size and interaction corrections. The critical exponents are
extracted from the peak and they agree with the critical exponents for the
correlation length.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures and supplemental materia
Radar-on-Lidar: metric radar localization on prior lidar maps
Radar and lidar, provided by two different range sensors, each has pros and
cons of various perception tasks on mobile robots or autonomous driving. In
this paper, a Monte Carlo system is used to localize the robot with a rotating
radar sensor on 2D lidar maps. We first train a conditional generative
adversarial network to transfer raw radar data to lidar data, and achieve
reliable radar points from generator. Then an efficient radar odometry is
included in the Monte Carlo system. Combining the initial guess from odometry,
a measurement model is proposed to match the radar data and prior lidar maps
for final 2D positioning. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed
localization framework on the public multi-session dataset. The experimental
results show that our system can achieve high accuracy for long-term
localization in outdoor scenes
A momentum filter for atomic gas
We propose and demonstrate a momentum filter for atomic gas based on a
designed Talbot-Lau interferometer. It consists in two identical optical
standing wave pulses separated by a delay equal to odd multiples of the half
Talbot time. The one dimensional momentum width along the long direction of a
cigar shape condensate is rapidly and greatly purified to a minimum, which
corresponds to the ground state energy of the confining trap in our experiment.
We find good agreement between theoretical analysis and experimental results.
The filter is also effective for non-condensed cold atoms and could be applied
widely.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted by New Journal of Physic
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