Diffractive focusing of a uniform Bose–Einstein condensate

authored by

Patrick Boegel, Matthias Meister, Jan-Niclas Siemß, Naceur Gaaloul, Maxim A. Efremov, Wolfgang P. Schleich

Abstract

We propose a straightforward implementation of the phenomenon of diffractive focusing with uniform atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Both, analytical as well as numerical methods not only illustrate the influence of the atom-atom interaction on the focusing factor and the focus time, but also allow us to derive the optimal conditions for observing focusing of this type in the case of interacting matter waves.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Institute of Quantum Optics
CRC 1227 Designed Quantum States of Matter (DQ-mat)

External Organisation(s)

German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Texas A and M University
Ulm University

Type

Article

Journal

Journal of Physics B-Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

Volume

54

Publication date

19.10.2021

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

Electronic version(s)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08682 (Access: Open)
https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ac2ab6 (Access: Open)