title: Direct, Nondestructive Observation of a Bose Condensate
abstract: The spatial observation of a Bose condensate is reported. Dispersive light scattering was used to observe the separation between the condensed and normal components of the Bose gas inside a magnetic trap. This technique is nondestructive, and about a hundred images of the same condensate can be taken. The width of the angular distribution of scattered light increased suddenly at the phase transition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Andrews
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Mewes
authors.lastname: van Druten NJ
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Durfee
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Kurn
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ketterle