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Production and characterization of a fragmented spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Bertrand Evrard
An Qu
Fabrice Gerbier

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Understanding the ground state of many-body fluids is a central question of statistical physics. Usually for weakly interacting Bose gases, most particles occupy the same state, corresponding to a Bose--Einstein condensate. However, another scenario may occur with the emergence of several, macroscopically populated single-particle states. The observation of such fragmented states remained elusive so far, due to their fragility to external perturbations. Here we produce a 3-fragment condensate for a spin 1 gas of $\sim 100$ atoms, with anti-ferromagnetic interactions and vanishing collective spin. Using a spin-resolved detection approaching single-atom resolution, we show that the reconstructed many-body state is quasi-pure, while one-body observables correspond to a mixed state. Our results highlight the interplay between symmetry and interaction to develop entanglement in a quantum system.

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hal-03098382 , version 1 (05-01-2021)

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Bertrand Evrard, An Qu, Jean Dalibard, Fabrice Gerbier. Production and characterization of a fragmented spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. Science, 2021, ⟨10.1126/science.abd8206⟩. ⟨hal-03098382⟩
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