Title page for ETD etd-0430103-095432

Document Type	thesis
Author Name	Pulido, Daniel
URN	etd-0430103-095432
Title	Instability in a Cold Atom Interferometer
Degree	MS
Department	Mathematical Sciences
Advisors	Mayer Humi, Advisor Alex Zozulya, Co-Advisor Bogdan Vernescu, Department Head
Keywords	interferometry bose-einstein condensation
Date of Presentation/Defense	2003-04-30
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract In this thesis we present a theoretical analysis of the instability in a cold atom interferometer. Interferometers are often used to split a signal (e.g. optical beam, matter wave), where each part of the signal evolves separately, then the interferometer recombines the signal. Interference effects from the recombination can be used to extract information about the different environments the the split signal traversed. The interferometer considered here splits a matter wave, the wave function of a Bose-Einstein Condensate, by using a guiding potential and then recombines the matter wave. The recombination process is shown to be unstable and the nature of the instability is characterized.
Files	dpulido.pdf

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