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Spinor Condensates and Light Scattering from Bose-Einstein Condensates

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Coherent atomic matter waves

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These notes discuss two aspects of the physics of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates: optical properties and spinor condensates. The first topic includes light scattering experiments which probe the excitations of a condensate in both the free-particle and phonon regime. At higher light intensity, a new form of superradiance and phase-coherent matter wave amplification were observed. We also discuss properties of spinor condensates and describe studies of ground-state spin domain structures and dynamical studies which revealed metastable excited states and quantum tunneling.

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Stamper-Kurn, D.M., Ketterle, W. (2001). Spinor Condensates and Light Scattering from Bose-Einstein Condensates. In: Kaiser, R., Westbrook, C., David, F. (eds) Coherent atomic matter waves. Les Houches - Ecole d’Ete de Physique Theorique, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45338-5_2

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