Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Phys Rev Lett. 2011 Jun 10;106(23):230401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.230401. Epub 2011 Jun 6.
We scrutinize the concept of saturation of the thermal component in a partially condensed trapped Bose gas. Using a 39K gas with tunable interactions, we demonstrate strong deviation from Einstein's textbook concept of a saturated vapor. However, the saturation picture can be recovered by extrapolation to the strictly noninteracting limit. We provide evidence for the universality of our observations through additional measurements with a different atomic species, 87Rb.
我们仔细研究了部分凝聚被俘获玻色气体中热分量的饱和概念。使用可调相互作用的 39K 气体,我们证明了与爱因斯坦教科书中饱和蒸汽的概念有很大的偏离。然而,通过外推到严格的非相互作用极限,可以恢复饱和图像。通过对不同原子种类 87Rb 的附加测量,我们提供了我们观察结果的普遍性的证据。