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We study the collapse of an attractive atomic Bose-Einstein condensate prepared in the uniform potential of an optical-box trap. We characterize the critical point for collapse and the collapse dynamics, observing universal behavior in agreement with theoretical expectations. Most importantly, we observe a clear experimental signature of the counterintuitive weak collapse, namely, that making the system more unstable can result in a smaller particle loss. We experimentally determine the scali...
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- American Physical Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Physical Review X Journal website
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 041058
- Publication date:
- 2016-12-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-11-09
- DOI:
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2160-3308
- ISSN:
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2160-3308
- Pubs id:
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pubs:856938
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uri:f780ee2d-976e-4724-a3e4-8c72435d131b
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- Copyright date:
- 2016
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- Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.
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Observation of weak collapse in a Bose-Einstein condensate
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