Abstract
We study the propagation of an atom laser beam through a spatial region with a magnetic field tuned around a Feshbach resonance. Magnetic fields below the resonance produce an effective focusing Kerr medium that causes a modulational instability of the atomic beam. Under appropriate circumstances, this results in beam breakup and filamentation seeded by quasiparticle fluctuations and in the generation of correlated atomic pairs.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 4 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | Physical Review Letters |
Volume | 90 |
Issue number | 14 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2003 |