October 1, 1999
Author(s)
M R. Matthews, B P. Anderson, P C. Haljan, D S. Hall, Juana S. Williams, C E. Wieman, Eric A. Cornell
The order parameter of a condensate with two internal states can continuously distort in such a way as to remove twists that have been imposed along its length. We observe this effect experimentally in the collapse and recurrence of Rabi oscillations in a