Coherent control of self-trapping of cold bosonic atoms

We study the behavior of ultracold bosonic atoms held in an optical lattice. We first show how a self-trapping transition can be induced in the system either by increasing the number of atoms occupying a lattice site or by raising the interaction strength above a critical value. We then investigate...

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Autor: Creffield, Charles
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/51580
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/51580
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:538.9
Optical lattice
Mott insulator
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Resumo:We study the behavior of ultracold bosonic atoms held in an optical lattice. We first show how a self-trapping transition can be induced in the system either by increasing the number of atoms occupying a lattice site or by raising the interaction strength above a critical value. We then investigate how applying a periodic driving potential to the self-trapped state can be used to coherently control the emission of a precise number of correlated bosons from the trapping site. This allows the preparation and transport of entangled bosonic states, which are of great relevance to novel technologies such as quantum-information processing.