Ozeri Roee, Steinhauer Jeff, Katz Nadav, Davidson Nir
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Jun 3;88(22):220401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.220401. Epub 2002 May 16.
The momentum and energy of phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate are measured directly from a time-of-flight image by computerized tomography. We find that the same atoms that carry the momentum of the excitation also carry the excitation energy. The measured energy is in agreement with the Bogoliubov spectrum. Hydrodynamic simulations are performed which confirm our observation.