Matter-wave scattering on a BEC in a double-well potential

Stefan Hunn, Moritz Hiller, Tsampikos Kottos, Doron Cohen, Andreas Buchleitner

Published 2012-03-02Version 1

We study the inelastic scattering of a probe particle on a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a double-well potential. We identify prominent signatures of the underlying mean-field phase space in the scattering signal and derive an analytical expression for the inelastic scattering cross section.