Toward a tomographic picture of a Bose-Einstein condensate.
The possibilities of applying tomographic techniques to a Bose-Einstein condensate to reconstruct its ground state are investigated by means of numerical simulations. Two situations for which the density-matrix elements can be retrieved from atom counting probabilities are considered. The methods presented here allow one to distinguish among various possible quantum states.
Mancini
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Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
Fortunato
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Tombesi
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D'Ariano
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