%0 Journal Article %1 Andrews1997Observation %A Andrews, M. R. %A Townsend, C. G. %A Miesner, H. J. %A Durfee, D. S. %A Kurn, D. M. %A Ketterle, W. %D 1997 %I American Association for the Advancement of Science %J Science %K bose\_gas, experiment %N 5300 %P 637--641 %R 10.1126/science.275.5300.637 %T Observation of Interference Between Two Bose Condensates %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.275.5300.637 %V 275 %X Interference between two freely expanding Bose-Einstein condensates has been observed. Two condensates separated by ∼40 micrometers were created by evaporatively cooling sodium atoms in a double-well potential formed by magnetic and optical forces. High-contrast matter-wave interference fringes with a period of ∼15 micrometers were observed after switching off the potential and letting the condensates expand for 40 milliseconds and overlap. This demonstrates that Bose condensed atoms are ” laser-like”; that is, they are coherent and show long-range correlations. These results have direct implications for the atom laser and the Josephson effect for atoms.

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