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H. Wallis

Publications and source records attributed to H. Wallis.

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arXiv1997

Mesoscopic Fermi gas in a harmonic trap

We study the thermodynamical properties of a mesoscopic Fermi gas in view of recent possibilities to trap ultracold atoms in a harmonic potential. We focus on the effects of shell closure for finite small atom numbers. The dependence of the chemical potential, the specific heat and the density distribution on particle number and temperature is obtained. Isotropic and anisotropic traps are compared. Possibilities of experimental observations are discussed.

cond-mat.stat-mech↗

arXiv1997

Output of a pulsed atom laser

We study the output properties of a pulsed atom laser consisting of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a magnetic trap and an additional rf field transferring atoms to an untrapped Zeeman sublevel. For weak output coupling we calculate the dynamics of the decaying condensate population, of its chemical potential and the velocity of the output atoms analytically.

quant-ph↗

arXiv1996

Interference of Bose condensates

We investigate the prospects of atomic interference using samples of Bose condensed atoms. First we show the ability of two independent Bose condensates to create an interference pattern, even if both condensates are described by Fock states. Thus, the existence of an experimental signature for a broken gauge symmetry, seen in a single run of the experiment, is not necessarily reflected by a broken symmetry on the level of the quantum mechanical state vector. Based on these results, we simulate numerically a recent experiment with two independent Bose condensates, performed by the group of W.Ketterle (MIT). The calculated expansion of the condensates is in good agreement with the experimental data. In addition the existence of interference fringes is predicted based on the nonlinear Schroedinger equation. Finally we study theoretically the influence of finite temperatures on the visibility of the interference in a double pinhole experiment.

atom-ph↗