Controlled generation of coherent matter currents using a periodic driving field

We study the effect of a strong, oscillating driving field on the dynamics of ultracold boson held in an optical lattice. Modeling the system as a Bose-Hubbard model, we show how the driving field can be used to produce and maintain a coherent atomic current by controlling the phase of the intersite...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Creffield, Charles, Sols Lucía, Fernando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51561
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51561
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Optical lattices
Atoms
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Sumario:We study the effect of a strong, oscillating driving field on the dynamics of ultracold boson held in an optical lattice. Modeling the system as a Bose-Hubbard model, we show how the driving field can be used to produce and maintain a coherent atomic current by controlling the phase of the intersite tunneling processes. We investigate both the stroboscopic and time- averaged behavior using Floquet theory, and demonstrate that this procedure provides a stable and precise method of controlling coherent quantum systems.