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Investigation of four-wave mixing of matter waves in Bose-Einstein condensates

  • Chunliu Sun*
  • , Chao Hang
  • , Guoxiang Huang
  • , Bambi Hu
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • East China Normal University
  • Hong Kong Baptist University
  • University of Houston

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Abstract

We investigate the four-wave mixing of matter wave packets created from a Bose-Einstein condensate, realized experimentally by utilizing light pulses to create two high-momentum wave packets via. Bragg diffraction from a stationary condensate. Based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, a set of nonlinearly coupled envelope equations including self- and cross-phase modulational effects are derived systematically using a method of multiple-scales. The exact and explicit analytical solutions are provided for the coupled envelope equations and the evolution of the wave packets after turning off trapping potential is discussed and compared with experiment.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)375-383
Number of pages9
JournalModern Physics Letters B
Volume18
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Apr 2004

Keywords

  • Bose-Einstein condensation
  • Four-wave mixing
  • Matter waves

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