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### Can three-body recombination purify a quantum gas?

Abstract:

Three-body recombination in quantum gases is traditionally associated with heating, but it was recently found that it can also cool the gas. We show that in a partially condensed three-dimensional homogeneous Bose gas three-body loss could even purify the sample, that is, reduce the entropy per particle and increase the condensed fraction $\eta$. We predict that the evolution of $\eta$ under continuous three-body loss can, depending on small changes in the initial conditions, exhibit two qual...

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Published
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Peer reviewed
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.020405

### Authors

Glidden, JAP More by this author
Hilker, TA More by this author
Cornell, EA More by this author
Publisher:
American Physical Society Publisher's website
Journal:
Physical Review Letters Journal website
Volume:
123
Pages:
Article: 020405
Publication date:
2019-07-12
Acceptance date:
2019-06-25
DOI:
EISSN:
1079-7114
ISSN:
0031-9007
Pubs id:
pubs:1003153
URN:
uri:eb8089a9-a23e-48c9-ac99-ae1a2e387c1c
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uuid:eb8089a9-a23e-48c9-ac99-ae1a2e387c1c
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pubs:1003153
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