Time interval distributions of atoms in atomic beams
arXiv:cond-mat/0607172 · doi:10.1007/s00340-006-2509-2
Abstract
We report on the experimental investigation of two-particle correlations between neutral atoms in a Hanbury Brown and Twiss experiment. Both an atom laser beam and a pseudo-thermal atomic beam are extracted from a Bose-Einstein condensate and the atom flux is measured with a single atom counter. We determine the conditional and the unconditional detection probabilities for the atoms in the beam and find good agreement with the theoretical predictions.
4 pages, 3 figures