Black A T, Gomez E, Turner L D, Jung S, Lett P D
Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Aug 17;99(7):070403. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.070403. Epub 2007 Aug 16.
We observe coherent spin oscillations in an antiferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate of sodium. The variation of the spin oscillations with magnetic field shows a clear signature of nonlinearity, in agreement with theory, which also predicts anharmonic oscillations near a critical magnetic field. Measurements of the magnetic phase diagram agree with predictions made in the approximation of a single spatial mode. The oscillation period yields the best measurement to date of the sodium spin-dependent interaction coefficient, determining that the difference between the sodium spin-dependent s-wave scattering lengths a(f=2) - a(f=0) is 2.47+/-0.27 Bohr radii.
我们在钠的反铁磁自旋-1玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中观测到了相干自旋振荡。自旋振荡随磁场的变化呈现出明显的非线性特征,这与理论相符,该理论还预测在临界磁场附近会出现非谐振荡。磁相图的测量结果与单空间模式近似下的预测一致。振荡周期给出了迄今为止对钠自旋相关相互作用系数的最佳测量值,确定钠自旋相关的s波散射长度之差a(f = 2) - a(f = 0)为2.47±0.27玻尔半径。