# Outcoupling from a Bose-Einstein condensate in the strong-field limit

## TL;DR

This paper investigates atom outcoupling from a Bose-Einstein condensate in the strong-field limit, revealing saturation effects and the limitations of semiclassical models through numerical simulations and experimental comparisons.

## Contribution

It provides a detailed numerical analysis of atom outcoupling in the strong-field regime, highlighting the transition to a trapped state and the failure of semiclassical models.

## Key findings

- Saturation of out-coupled atom rate observed in experiments.
- Numerical models agree qualitatively with experimental data at saturation onset.
- Semiclassical rate model fails in the strong-coupling regime.

## Abstract

Atoms can be extracted from a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by driving spin-flips to untrapped states. The coherence properties of the BEC are transfered to the released atoms, creating a coherent beam of matter refered to as an atom laser. In this work, the extraction of atoms from a BEC is investigated numerically by solving a coupled set of Gross-Pitaevskii equations in up to three dimensions. The result is compared to experimental data and a semiclassical rate model. In the weak-coupling regime, quantitative agreement is reached between theory and experiment and a semiclassical rate model. In the strong-coupling regime, the atom laser enters a trapped state that manifests itself in a saturation of the rate of out-coupled atoms observed in new experimental data. The semiclassical rate model fails, but the numerical descriptions yield qualitative agreement with experimental data at the onset of saturation.