Image 1. Formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of 87Rb atoms. False-color images display the velocity distribution of the atomic cloud of at (left) just before the appearance of the Bose-Einstein condensate, (center) just after the appearance of the condensate and (right) after further evaporation left a sample of nearly pure condensate. The field of view of each frame is 200 x 270 micrometers, and corresponds to the distance the atoms have moved in about 1/20 of a second. The color corresponds to the number of atoms at each velocity, with red being the fewest and white being the most. Areas appearing white and light blue indicate lower velocities.We have provided links to external sites because they have information that may be of interest to our users. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views or the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be advertised or available on these sites. By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace.
Image 3. Decay of a soliton in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Cover illustration for Optics and Photonics News, December 2000. From "Solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate," D.L. Feder, Optics & Photonics News 12, 38-39 (December 2000).
Image 4. Four-wave mixing of matter waves. Color illustration for Nature, 18 March 1999. From "Four-wave mixing with matter waves," by L. Deng, E.W. Hagley, J. Wen, M. Trippenbach, Y. Band, P.S. Julienne, J.E. Simsarian, K. Helmerson, S.L. Rolston and W.D. Phillips, Nature 398, 218-220 (1999).
Image 5. Array of twelve vortices in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. Cover illustration for Physics Today, December 1999. From "The Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dilute Gases," K. Burnett, M. Edwards, and C.W. Clark, Physics Today 52, 37-42 (December 1999).
Image 6. Array of twelve vortices in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. Cover illustration for Parity (Japanese Journal), August 2000. From "The Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dilute Gases," K. Burnett, M. Edwards, and C.W. Clark, Physics Today 52, 37-42 (December 1999)
Image 8. Decay of a soliton in a Bose-Einstein condensate. From "Solitons in a Bose-Einstein condensate," D.L. Feder, Optics & Photonics News 12, 38-39 (December 2000).
Image 9. Twelve-vortex array in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. From "The Theory of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dilute Gases," K. Burnett, M. Edwards, and C.W. Clark, Physics Today 52, 37-42 (December 1999).
Image 10. Vortex ring structures as found in the decay of dark solitons. From "Decay of dark solitons into vortex rings," B.P. Anderson, P.C. Haljan, C.A. Regal, D.L. Feder, L.A. Collins, C.W. Clark, and E.A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2926-2929 (2001).
Image 11. Soliton propagation in a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate, generated by an initial phase offset. From "Soliton dynamics in the collisions of Bose-Einstein condensates: an analogue of the Josephson effect," W.P. Reinhardt and C.W. Clark, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 30, L785-L789 (1997).
Image 12. Density and coherence function of a Rb atom condensate in the JILA TOP trap, as a function of temperature (animation). From "Characterizing the coherence of Bose-Einstein condensates and atom lasers," R.J. Dodd, Charles W. Clark, Mark Edwards and K. Burnett, Optics Express 1, 284-292 (1997).