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SUBMITTER: Lachmann MD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910597 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lachmann Maike D MD Ahlers Holger H Becker Dennis D Dinkelaker Aline N AN Grosse Jens J Hellmig Ortwin O Müntinga Hauke H Schkolnik Vladimir V Seidel Stephan T ST Wendrich Thijs T Wenzlawski André A Carrick Benjamin B Gaaloul Naceur N Lüdtke Daniel D Braxmaier Claus C Ertmer Wolfgang W Krutzik Markus M Lämmerzahl Claus C Peters Achim A Schleich Wolfgang P WP Sengstock Klaus K Wicht Andreas A Windpassinger Patrick P Rasel Ernst M EM
Nature communications 20210226 1
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in free fall constitute a promising source for space-borne interferometry. Indeed, BECs enjoy a slowly expanding wave function, display a large spatial coherence and can be engineered and probed by optical techniques. Here we explore matter-wave fringes of multiple spinor components of a BEC released in free fall employing light-pulses to drive Bragg processes and induce phase imprinting on a sounding rocket. The prevailing microgravity played a crucial role in t ...[more]