BLOCH OSCILLATIONS OF COLD ATOMS IN OPTICAL LATTICES

2004/03/31 by Andrey R. Kolovsky, ANDREY R. KOLOVSKY, Hans Jürgen Korsch +1 · 54 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Atom optics #Bloch oscillations #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Phenomenon #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Quantum chaos and dynamical systems #Quantum decoherence #Realization (probability) #Ultracold atom #Work (physics) #cond-mat.soft

paper · pdf · doi:10.1142/s0217979204024483

published in International Journal of Modern Physics B 18(09), 1235-1260 (World Scientific) · submitted to the review section of IJMPB, few misprints are corrected

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Abstract

This work is devoted to Bloch oscillations (BO) of cold neutral atoms in optical lattices. After a general introduction to the phenomenon of BO and its realization in optical lattices, we study different extentions of this problem, which account for recent developments in this field. These are two-dimensional BO, decoherence of BO, and BO in correlated systems. Although these problems are discussed in relation to the system of cold atoms in optical lattices, many of the results are of general validity and can be well applied to other systems showing the phenomenon of BO.

Citations

• Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms
• Bloch Oscillations and Mean-Field Effects of Bose-Einstein Condensates in 1D Optical Lattices
• Wannier-Stark States of a Quantum Particle in 2D Lattices
• Wave-packet reconstruction via local dynamics in a parabolic lattice
• Wannier-Stark resonances in optical and semiconductor superlattices
• Damped Bloch oscillations of cold atoms in optical lattices

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