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arxiv: cond-mat/9912172 · v2 · submitted 1999-12-10 · ❄️ cond-mat

Probing the statistical properties of Bose-Einstein condensates with light

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keywords bose-einsteinpropertiesstatisticalcondensatecondensatesdistinguishlaserlight
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A scattering of short, weak, nonresonant laser pulses on a Bose-Einstein condensate is proposed as a tool for studying its statistical properties. We show in particular that the variance of the number of scattered photons may distinguish between the Poisson and microcanonical statistics.

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