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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik
Q 12: Ultra-cold atoms, ions and BEC (with A)
Q 12.20: Poster
Monday, February 29, 2016, 16:30–19:00, Empore Lichthof
A quantum gas machine for studies of local losses induced by photoionization — •Tobias Kroker1, Janine Franz1, Bernhard Ruff2,3, Tim Anlauf1, Juliette Simonet1, Philipp Wessels1,3, Markus Drescher2,3, and Klaus Sengstock1,3 — 1Zentrum für Optische Quantentechnologien, Hamburg, Germany — 2Institut für Experimentalphysik, Hamburg, Germany — 3The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging, Hamburg, Germany
Local photoionization of ultracold atoms shall offer insight into the coherence properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). To access the corresponding quantum effects, we are setting up an experiment which allows resolving correlations among electrons photoionized from a BEC by a femtosecond laser pulse.
Here we report on our progress in setting up a quantum gas machine where the ultracold gases are optically transported into the focus region of the femtosecond laser beam. As photoionization induces local losses in the BEC, a theoretical model of the dissipative system is essential including a quantification of the quantum Zeno effect.