Quantum Depletion of a Homogeneous Bose-Einstein Condensate

Phys Rev Lett. 2017 Nov 10;119(19):190404. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.190404. Epub 2017 Nov 7.

Abstract

We measure the quantum depletion of an interacting homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate and confirm the 70-year-old theory of Bogoliubov. The observed condensate depletion is reversibly tunable by changing the strength of the interparticle interactions. Our atomic homogeneous condensate is produced in an optical-box trap, the interactions are tuned via a magnetic Feshbach resonance, and the condensed fraction is determined by momentum-selective two-photon Bragg scattering.