Title :
Inelastic collisions between Bogoliubov excitations due to three-wave mixing
Author :
Ozeri, R. ; Katz, N. ; Steihhauer, J. ; Rowen, E. ; Gershnabel, E. ; Davidson, N.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys. of Complex Syst., Weizmann Inst. of Sci., Israel
Abstract :
This study introduces a basis of states which are dressed by the interaction between three, largely populated, modes of Bogoliubov quasi-particles in a Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. The dressed basis is obtained by diagonalizing the N×M matrix, which represents the coupling between mode k with N excitations and mode q with M excitations. The degeneracy between the excitation Fock states is removed by the interaction. The new dressed basis spans a spectrum of energies which is symmetric around E=0. The spectrum appears to be roughly linear, however, due to the non-linearity of the problem, energy differences between each pair of dressed states are slightly different.
Keywords :
Bose-Einstein condensation; atom-atom collisions; dressed states; excited states; multiwave mixing; quantum optics; Bogoliubov excitations; Bogoliubov quasiparticles; Bose-Einstein condensate; Fock states; dressed basis; dressed states; inelastic collisions; matrix diagonalization; three-wave mixing; zero temperature; Chemicals; Damping; Differential equations; Four-wave mixing; Nonlinear dynamical systems; Optical scattering; Phonons; Physics; Surface treatment; Temperature;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314080