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Minimally destructive, Doppler measurement of a quantized, superfluid flow

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Author(s)

Avinash Kumar, Neil Anderson, William D. Phillips, Stephen P. Eckel, Gretchen K. Campbell, Sandro Stringari

Abstract

The Doppler effect, the shift in the frequency of sound due to motion, is present in both classical gases and quantum superfluids. Here, we perform an in-situ, minimally destructive measurement, of the persistent current in a ring-shaped, superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate using the Doppler effect. Phonon modes generated in this condensate have their frequencies Doppler shifted by a persistent current. This frequency shift will cause a standing-wave phonon mode to be "dragged'' along with the persistent current. By measuring this precession, one can extract the background flow velocity. This technique will find utility in experiments where the winding number is important, such as in emerging 'atomtronic' devices.
Citation
New Journal of Physics
Volume
18
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

atomtronics, Bose-Einstein condensation, Doppler effect, excitations, persistent currents, phonons, sound waves, superfludity, ultracold atoms

Citation

Kumar, A. , Anderson, N. , Phillips, W. , Eckel, S. , Campbell, G. and Stringari, S. (2016), Minimally destructive, Doppler measurement of a quantized, superfluid flow, New Journal of Physics, [online], https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/18/2/025001 (Accessed April 25, 2024)

Created February 1, 2016, Updated November 10, 2018