Instability and control of a periodically driven Bose-Einstein condensate

We investigate the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in an optical lattice under the influence of a strong periodic driving potential. Studying the mean-field version of the Bose- Hubbard model reveals that the condensate becomes dynamically unstable when the effective intersite tunneling...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Creffield, Charles
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/44738
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/44738
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:538.9
Optical lattice
Física de materiales
Física del estado sólido
2211 Física del Estado Sólido
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Sumario:We investigate the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in an optical lattice under the influence of a strong periodic driving potential. Studying the mean-field version of the Bose- Hubbard model reveals that the condensate becomes dynamically unstable when the effective intersite tunneling becomes negative. We further show how controlling the sign of the tunneling can be used to manage the dispersion of an atomic wave packet.