Our BEC and Atom Trapping publications

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Latest Results

Spontaneous vortices in the formation of BECs. 
C. Weiler, T. Neely, D. Scherer, A. Bradley, M. Davis, and B. Anderson, Nature 455, p. 948, 16 October, 2008

Prior Publications

Structure and stability of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates under both harmonic and lattice confinement,
  K.J.H. Law, P.G. Kevrekidis, B.P. Anderson, R. Carretero-Gonzalez, and D.J. Frantzeskakis, J. Phys. B 41, 195303 (2008).  [PDF].   (This journal publication supercedes ArXiv e-print condmat/0803.3240.)

Dynamics of Vortex Formation in Merging Bose-Einstein Condensate Fragments
    R. Carretero-González, B.P. Anderson, P.G. Kevrekidis, D.J. Frantzeskakis, and C.N. Weiler, Phys. Rev. A 77, 033625 (2008). [PDF]  (This journal publication supercedes ArXiv e-print condmat/0711.0375)

Vortex Formation by Merging of Multiple Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
    David R. Scherer, Chad N. Weiler, Tyler W. Neely, and Brian P. Anderson,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110402 (2007).  [PDF]   (This journal publication supercedes ArXiv preprint condmat/0610187.)

Experiments on Multidimensional Solitons
   Joachim Brand, L.D. Carr, B.P. Anderson, ArXiv e-print condmat/0705.1341.
   Review paper, in Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Theory and Experiment, edited by P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and R. Carretero-Gonzalez (Springer-Verlag), 2008.

Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates: The First Experiments
    Brian P. Anderson
    Review paper, in Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Theory and Experiment, edited by P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and R. Carretero-Gonzalez (Springer-Verlag), 2008.

Vortex Formation by Merging and Interference of Multiple Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
    David R. Scherer's PhD dissertation,  PDF  (3 MB).
    Includes a technical description of the construction of our BEC apparatus, and a discussion of our BEC merging experiment (among other things).

Nonlinear Atom Optics
B. Anderson and P. Meystre, Contemporary Physics 44, 473-483 (2003).

Atomic-phase interference devices based on ring-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates: Two-ring case
B.P. Anderson, K. Dholakia, E.M. Wright,  Phys. Rev. A 67, 033601 (2003) / PDF

Manipulating the critical temperature for the superfluid phase transition in trapped atomic Fermi gases
C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang, B. P. Anderson, and P. Meystre, Phys.  Rev.  A 65, 063616 (2002) / PDF

Nonlinear Atom Optics
Brian P. Anderson and Pierre Meystre,  Optics and Photonics News, June 2002.

New Twists in Bose-Einstein Condensation
Elizabeth A. Donley, Brian P. Anderson, Carl E. Wieman, Optics and Photonics News, October 2001.

Prior BPA publications

Watching dark solitons decay into vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein condensate
B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, C. A. Regal, D. L. Feder, L. A. Collins, C. W. Clark, E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2926-2929 (2001) / PDF

Using Surface Wave Spectroscopy to Characterize Tilt Modes of a Vortex in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
P. C. Haljan, B. P. Anderson, I. Coddington, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2922-2925 (2001) / PDF

Vortex Precession in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Observations with Filled and Empty Cores
B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2857-2860 (2000) / PDF

Atomic tunnel arrays
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, in Proceedings of the International School of Physics 'Enrico Fermi', Course CXL, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases, (M. Inguscio, S. Stringari, and C. E. Wieman, Eds., IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1999), pp. 439-452. PDF

Watching a superfluid untwist itself: Recurrence of Rabi oscillations in a Bose-Einstein condensate
M. R. Matthews, B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, D. S. Hall, M. J. Holland, J. E Williams, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3358-3361 (1999) / PDF

Vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate
M. R. Matthews, B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, D. S. Hall, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett 83, 2498-2501 (1999) / PDF

Spatial observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a confining potential
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 59, R938-R941 (1999) / PDF

Macroscopic Quantum Interference from Atomic Tunnel Arrays
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Science 282, 1686-1689 (1998) / PDF

Loading a vapor cell magneto-optic trap using light-induced atom desorption
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 023404 (2001) /  PDF

Atom trapping in nondissipative optical lattices
B. P. Anderson, T. L. Gustavson, and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 53, R3727-R3730 (1996) / PDF

Enhanced loading of a magneto-optic trap from an atomic beam
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 50, R3581-R3584 (1994) / PDF