Measurement of critical correlations in an ultracold Bose gas by means of a temporal Talbot-Lau interferometery

Abstract

We report the results of a study of measuring the correlation length at the Lambda critical phase transition point in an ultra-cold Bose gas with a temporal Talbot-Lau (TL) interferometery. Near the critical temperature, the correlation length increase exponentially and its critical exponent factor is measured around 0.67, which is a universal value in quantum gas. In the experiment we filtered the fraction of condensate from the thermal cloud at the Lambda critical phase transition point by means of the TL interferometer technique.