Transformation of the Talbot effect in response to phase disorder
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| author | Mosaki, Ilia Turlapov, A. V. |
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| contents | Bose-Einstein condensates initially arranged in a long chain freely expand and interfere. If the initial phases of the condensates are identical, the initial density distribution is restored periodically during the expansion, giving rise to the Talbot effect. Even a slight disorder in the initial phases leads to a transformation of the interference pattern. In response to the phase disorder, the spectrum of the spatial density distribution acquires peaks that are absent in the case of identical phases. We derive an analytical expression for the spectrum of the spatial density distribution for an arbitrary phase disorder. We show that the new peaks emerging due to the phase disorder originate from pairwise interferences of the condensates. The positions of these peaks coincide with the wave vectors of the density modulations (wavelets) generated by such pairwise interferences. The absence of these peaks, when the initial phases are identical, is explained by the mutual destruction of the overlapping wavelets during their summation. |
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| spellingShingle | Transformation of the Talbot effect in response to phase disorder Mosaki, Ilia Turlapov, A. V. Quantum Gases Atomic Physics Quantum Physics Bose-Einstein condensates initially arranged in a long chain freely expand and interfere. If the initial phases of the condensates are identical, the initial density distribution is restored periodically during the expansion, giving rise to the Talbot effect. Even a slight disorder in the initial phases leads to a transformation of the interference pattern. In response to the phase disorder, the spectrum of the spatial density distribution acquires peaks that are absent in the case of identical phases. We derive an analytical expression for the spectrum of the spatial density distribution for an arbitrary phase disorder. We show that the new peaks emerging due to the phase disorder originate from pairwise interferences of the condensates. The positions of these peaks coincide with the wave vectors of the density modulations (wavelets) generated by such pairwise interferences. The absence of these peaks, when the initial phases are identical, is explained by the mutual destruction of the overlapping wavelets during their summation. |
| title | Transformation of the Talbot effect in response to phase disorder |
| topic | Quantum Gases Atomic Physics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.23026 |