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Two sets of studies concerning the interaction of off-resonant light with a sodium Bose–Einstein condensate are described. In the first set, properties of a Bose–Einstein condensate were studied using Bragg spectroscopy. The high momentum and energy resolution of this method allowed a spectroscopic measurement of the mean-field energy and of the intrinsic momentum distribution of the condensate. Depending on the momentum transfer, both the phonon regime as well as the free-particle regime could be explored. In the second set of studies, the cigar-shaped condensate was exposed to a single off-resonant laser beam and highly directional scattering of light and atoms was observed. This collective light scattering was caused by the long coherence time of the quasi-particles in the condensate and resulted in a new form of matter wave amplification.
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Received: 26 June 1999 / Revised version: 21 September 1999 / Published online: 10 November 1999
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Stenger, J., Inouye, S., Stamper-Kurn, D. et al. Bragg spectroscopy and superradiant Rayleigh scattering in a Bose–Einstein condensate. Appl Phys B 69, 347–352 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050818
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050818