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Dynamical control of matter-wave tunneling in periodic potentials

Lignier, H. and Sias, C. and Ciampini, D. and Singh, Y. and Zenesini, A. and Morsch, O. and Arimondo, E. (2007) Dynamical control of matter-wave tunneling in periodic potentials. Physical review letters . ISSN 0031-9007

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Abstract

We report on measurements of dynamical suppression of inter-well tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a strongly driven optical lattice. The strong driving is a sinusoidal shaking of the lattice corresponding to a time-varying linear potential, and the tunneling is measured by letting the BEC freely expand in the lattice. The measured tunneling rate is reduced and, for certain values of the shaking parameter, completely suppressed. Our results are in excellent agreement with theoretical predictions. Furthermore, we have verified that in general the strong shaking does not destroy the phase coherence of the BEC, opening up the possibility of realizing quantum phase transitions by using the shaking strength as the control parameter.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Imported from arXiv
Subjects: Area02 - Scienze fisiche > FIS/03 - Fisica della materia
Divisions: Dipartimenti (until 2012) > DIPARTIMENTO DI FISICA " E. FERMI"
Depositing User: dott.ssa Sandra Faita
Date Deposited: 07 Apr 2015 17:36
Last Modified: 07 Apr 2015 17:36
URI: http://eprints.adm.unipi.it/id/eprint/1360

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