A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

J. Hecker Denschlag; J. E. Simsarian; H. Häffner; C. McKenzie; A. Browaeys; Donghyun Cho; K. Helmerson; S. L. Rolston; W. D. Phillips

doi:10.1088/0953-4075/35/14/307

A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

J. Hecker Denschlag, J. E. Simsarian, H. Häffner, C. McKenzie, A. Browaeys, Donghyun Cho, K. Helmerson, S. L. Rolston, W. D. Phillips

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Abstract

We have performed a number of experiments with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Making use of the small momentum spread of a BEC and standard atom optics techniques, a high level of coherent control over an artificial solid-state system is demonstrated. We are able to load the BEC into the lattice ground state with a very high efficiency by adiabatically turning on the optical lattice. We coherently transfer population between lattice states and observe their evolution. Methods are developed and used to perform band spectroscopy. We use these techniques to build a BEC accelerator and a novel, coherent, large-momentum-transfer beam-splitter.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3095-3110
Number of pages	16
Journal	Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Volume	35
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/35/14/307
Publication status	Published - 2002 Jul 28

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Hecker Denschlag, J., Simsarian, J. E., Häffner, H., McKenzie, C., Browaeys, A., Cho, D., Helmerson, K., Rolston, S. L., & Phillips, W. D. (2002). A Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 35(14), 3095-3110. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/35/14/307

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