Publications 2002




 

Fermionic Feshbach resonance
K. Dieckmann, C. A. Stan, S. Gupta, Z. Hadzibabic, C. Schunck, and W. Ketterle:

Decay of ultracold fermionic lithium gas near a Feshbach resonance.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89,
203201 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 86 kB)

Topological phases and vortices
A.E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, A.P. Chikkatur, D. Kielpinski, Y. Shin, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle:
Imprinting vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate using topological phases.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89,
190403 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 478kB)

Continuous BEC
A. P. Chikkatur, Y. Shin, A. E. Leanhardt, D. Kielpinski, E. Tsikata, T. L. Gustavson, D. E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle:
A Continuous Source of Bose-Einstein Condensed Atoms.
Science 296, 2193-2195 (2002); published online in Science Express on May 16, 2002.
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 199 kB)Press report (pdf, 83 kB)

Pair-correlated atomic beams
J.M. Vogels, K. Xu, and W. Ketterle:
Generation of macroscopic pair-correlated atomic beams by four-wave mixing in Bose-Einstein condensates.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 020401 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 150 kB)

Contrast interferometry
S. Gupta, K. Dieckmann, Z. Hadzibabic and D. E. Pritchard:
Contrast Interferometry using Bose-Einstein Condensates to Measure h/m and \alpha.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 140401 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 177 kB)Press report (pdf, 147 kB)

Propagation of a BEC on a microchip

A.E. Leanhardt, A.P. Chikkatur, D. Kielpinski, Y. Shin, T.L. Gustavson, W. Ketterle, and D.E. Pritchard:
Propagation of Bose-Einstein condensates in a magnetic waveguide.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 040401 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 263 kB)

Quantum degenerate fermion-boson mixture
Z. Hadzibabic, C.A. Stan, K. Dieckmann, S. Gupta, M.W. Zwierlein, A. Görlitz, and W. Ketterle:
Two species mixture of quantum degenerate Bose and Fermi gases.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 160401(2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 112 kB)Press report (pdf, 224 kB)

Analysis of the phonon wavefunction

J.M. Vogels, K. Xu, C. Raman, J.R. Abo-Shaeer, and W. Ketterle:
Experimental observation of the Bogoliubov transformation for a Bose-Einstein condensed gas.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 060402 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 102 kB)

Formation and decay of vortex lattices
J.R. Abo-Shaeer, C. Raman, and W. Ketterle:
Formation and Decay of Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates at Finite Temperatures.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 070409 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 231kB)

BEC Tweezers
T.L.Gustavson, A.P.Chikkatur, A.E.Leanhardt, A.Görlitz, S.Gupta, D.E.Pritchard, and W.Ketterle: Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Optical Tweezers.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 020401 (2002).
AbstractSummary (pdf)Paper (pdf, 185 kB) ImagesPress report_1 (jpg, 1.0 MB)
Press report_2 (jpg, 0.5 MB)


Further publications
Nature Insight Review
J.R. Anglin and W. Ketterle:
Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases.
Nature 416, 211-218 (2002).
Paper (pdf, 1.6 MB)

Nobel Lecture
W. Ketterle:
When atoms behave as waves:  Bose-Einstein condensation and the atom laser.
in: Les Prix Nobel 2001 (The Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 2002),
pp. 118
-154.Paper (pdf, 1.0 MB)
reprinted in: ChemPhysChem 3, 736-753 (2002).Paper (pdf, 577 kB)
Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 1131-1151 (2002).Paper (pdf, 1.55 MB)ISI Interview

Nobel autobiograhyPaper (pdf, 1.3 MB)

Some autobiographical notes
W. Ketterle:
Im Zickzack-Kurs zum Nobelpreis (in German).
Jahresbericht 2001, Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.Paper (pdf, 571 kB)