Dressed matter waves

2008/01/09 by Andre Eckardt, A Eckardt, Martin Holthaus +1 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum many-body systems #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.other

paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-6596/99/1/012007

published as J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 99, 012007 (2008) · 9 pages, 4 figures, to be published in: J. Phys.: Conference Series

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Abstract

We suggest to view ultracold atoms in a time-periodically shifted optical lattice as a 'dressed matter wave', analogous to a dressed atom in an electromagnetic field. A possible effect lending support to this concept is a transition of ultracold bosonic atoms from a superfluid to a Mott-insulating state in response to appropriate "dressing" achieved through time-periodic lattice modulation. In order to observe this effect in a laboratory experiment, one has to identify conditions allowing for effectively adiabatic motion of a many-body Floquet state.

Citations

• Steady States and Quasienergies of a Quantum-Mechanical System in an Oscillating Field
• Solution of the Schrödinger Equation with a Hamiltonian Periodic in Time
• Quantal phase factors accompanying adiabatic changes

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