Iacopo Carusotto and Erich J Mueller 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 S115 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/37/7/058
Iacopo Carusotto1,2 and Erich J Mueller3
Show affiliationsWe explore the dielectric properties of spinor condensates. Gases with vector (nematic) order, such as spin-1 condensates with ferromagnetic (antiferromagnetic) interactions, display optical activity (birefringence). This optical activity/birefringence is respectively seen for light detuned from resonance by a frequency which is not too large compared with the fine/hyperfine structure. Careful tuning of the light frequency can isolate either of these two effects. These features can be used to image spin textures in clouds of spin-1 bosons, and to discern states showing different types of spin order.
Issue 7 (14 April 2004)
Received 30 October 2003
Published 24 March 2004
Iacopo Carusotto and Erich J Mueller 2004 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37 S115
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