Hanbury Brown Twiss effect for ultracold quantum gases
arXiv:cond-mat/0508466 · doi:10.1126/science.1118024
Abstract
We have studied 2-body correlations of atoms in an expanding cloud above and below the Bose-Einstein condensation threshold. The observed correlation function for a thermal cloud shows a bunching behavior, while the correlation is flat for a coherent sample. These quantum correlations are the atomic analogue of the Hanbury Brown Twiss effect. We observe the effect in three dimensions and study its dependence on cloud size.
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