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F Laloë

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PubMed2005

Long-lived quantum memory with nuclear atomic spins.

We propose to store nonclassical states of light into the macroscopic collective nuclear spin (10(18) atoms) of a 3He vapor, using metastability exchange collisions. These collisions, commonly used to transfer orientation from the metastable state 2 3S1 to the ground state of 3He, can also transfer quantum correlations. This gives a possible experimental scheme to map a squeezed vacuum field state onto a nuclear spin state with very long storage times (hours).

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PubMed2002

Internal state conversion in ultracold gases.

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.

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PubMed2001

Nonanalytic dependence of the transition temperature of the homogeneous dilute Bose gas on scattering length.

We show that the shift in the transition temperature of the dilute homogeneous Bose gas is nonanalytic in the scattering amplitude a. The first correction beyond the positive linear shift in a is negative and of order a(2)lna. This nonuniversal nonanalytic structure indicates how the discrepancies between numerical calculations at finite a can be reconciled with calculations of the limit a-->0, since the linearity is apparent only for anomalously small a.

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