%0 Journal Article %1 Burt1997Coherence %A Burt, E. A. %A Ghrist, R. W. %A Myatt, C. J. %A Holland, M. J. %A Cornell, E. A. %A Wieman, C. E. %D 1997 %I American Physical Society %J Physical Review Letters %K bec, three-body %N 3 %P 337--340 %R 10.1103/physrevlett.79.337 %T Coherence, Correlations, and Collisions: What One Learns about Bose-Einstein Condensates from Their Decay %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.337 %V 79 %X We have used three-body recombination rates as a sensitive probe of the statistical correlations between atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) and in ultracold noncondensed dilute atomic gases. We infer that density fluctuations are suppressed in the BEC samples. We measured the three-body recombination rate constants for condensates and cold noncondensates from number loss in the F = 1,mf = -1 hyperfine state of 87Rb. The ratio of these is 7.4(2.6) which agrees with the theoretical factor of 3! and demonstrates that condensate atoms are less bunched than noncondensate atoms.

@article{Burt1997Coherence, abstract = {{We have used three-body recombination rates as a sensitive probe of the statistical correlations between atoms in Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) and in ultracold noncondensed dilute atomic gases. We infer that density fluctuations are suppressed in the BEC samples. We measured the three-body recombination rate constants for condensates and cold noncondensates from number loss in the F = 1,mf = -1 hyperfine state of 87Rb. The ratio of these is 7.4(2.6) which agrees with the theoretical factor of 3! and demonstrates that condensate atoms are less bunched than noncondensate atoms.}}, added-at = {2019-02-26T15:22:34.000+0100}, author = {Burt, E. A. and Ghrist, R. W. and Myatt, C. J. and Holland, M. J. and Cornell, E. A. and Wieman, C. E.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23cba53bd7071e0251a35e6cdd0c29923/rspreeuw}, citeulike-article-id = {1801363}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.337}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v79/i3/p337}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://link.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v79/i3/p337}, day = 21, doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.79.337}, interhash = {de7b81d76ade11f1b1d3fca9fdd694d3}, intrahash = {3cba53bd7071e0251a35e6cdd0c29923}, journal = {Physical Review Letters}, keywords = {bec, three-body}, month = jul, number = 3, pages = {337--340}, posted-at = {2008-02-06 21:29:37}, priority = {2}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, timestamp = {2019-02-26T15:22:34.000+0100}, title = {{Coherence, Correlations, and Collisions: What One Learns about Bose-Einstein Condensates from Their Decay}}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.79.337}, volume = 79, year = 1997 }