Title : 
Center-of-mass measurements and coherence properties of quantum gases
         
        
            Author : 
Drummond, Peter D. ; Vaughan, Timothy G. ; Corney, Joel E. ; Leuchs, G.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Univ. of Queensland, Brisbane
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper, standard quantum limits for center-of-mass fluctuations of fermionic and bosonic quantum gases is obtained, as well as a novel, second-order measure of condensate formation. It is also shown how these measures relate to standard techniques for preparing and propagating these systems, via exact first principles many-body quantum simulations without factorization approximations.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Bose-Einstein condensation; fermion systems; optical solitons; quantum optics; bosonic quantum gases; center-of-mass fluctuations; fermionic quantum gases; first principles many-body quantum simulations; Australia; Cooling; Density measurement; Gases; Jitter; Land surface temperature; Measurement standards; Noise measurement; Optical solitons; Quantum mechanics;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2007 and the International Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEOE-IQEC 2007. European Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Munich
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0931-0
         
        
            Electronic_ISBN : 
978-1-4244-0931-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2007.4386722