The Disordered Quantum Prison
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 1 Story 1 - 12/6/2008

Localized by disorder

Images of temporal evolution of the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). Without disorder (top) the BEC expands freely in the non-confined direction, shown as vertical. With disorder (bottom) the BEC stays localized. Image courtesy of LENS.
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Localized by disorder. Images of temporal evolution of the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). Without disorder (top) the BEC expands freely in the non-confined direction, shown as vertical. With disorder (bottom) the BEC stays localized.