title: Toward a tomographic picture of a Bose-Einstein condensate.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Milano, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mancini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fortunato
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tombesi
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: D'Ariano