Macroscopic superpositions of Bose-Einstein condensates
Macroscopic superpositions of Bose-Einstein condensates
We consider two dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates with opposite velocities from which a monochromatic light field detuned far from the resonance of the optical transition is coherently scattered. In the thermodynamic limit, when the relative fluctuations of the atom number difference between the two condensates vanish, the relative phase between …