Decoherence-driven cooling of a degenerate spinor Bose gas.
We investigate the relationship between the coherence of a partially Bose-condensed spinor gas and its temperature. We observe cooling of the normal component driven by decoherence as well as the effect of temperature on decoherence rates.
Lewandowski
H J
HJ
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and University of Colorado, and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA.
McGuirk
J M
JM
Harber
D M
DM
Cornell
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EA