Abstract
We consider an ultracold gas of (noncondensed) bosons or fermions with two internal states, and we study the effect of a gradient of the transition frequency between these states. When a pi/2 rf pulse is applied to the sample, exchange effects during collisions transfer the atoms into internal states which depend on the direction of their velocity. This results, after a short time, in a spatial separation between the two states. A kinetic equation is solved analytically and numerically; the results agree well with the recent observations of Lewandowski et al.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 230404 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 88 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2002 |