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rubidium-87 atoms released from an Ioffe–Pritchard magnetic trap is investigated experimentally. The expansion dynamics depend only on the trap frequencies, which are determined independently. The data are in good agreement with the expected expansion of a condensate, and are clearly distinct from the behaviour of a classical gas in the hydrodynamic regime.
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Ernst, U., Schuster, J., Schreck, F. et al. Free expansion of a Bose–Einstein condensate from an Ioffe–Pritchard magnetic trap . Appl Phys B 67, 719–722 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050571
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050571