QUANTUM STATE RECONSTRUCTION OF A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE

Authors
MANCINI S TOMBESI P
Citation
S. Mancini et P. Tombesi, QUANTUM STATE RECONSTRUCTION OF A BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATE, Europhysics letters, 40(4), 1997, pp. 351-355
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Europhysics letters → ACNP
ISSN journal
02955075
Volume
40
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Pages
351 - 355
Database
ISI
SICI code
0295-5075(1997)40:4<351:QSROAB>2.0.ZU;2-J
Abstract
We propose a tomographic scheme to reconstruct the quantum state of a Bose-Einstein condensate, exploiting the radiation field as a probe an d considering the atomic internal degrees of freedom. The density matr ix in the number state basis can be directly retrieved from the atom c ounting probabilities.