Manipulating matter waves in an optical superlattice

Brendan Reid, Maria Moreno-Cardoner, Jacob Sherson, Gabriele De Chiara

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Abstract

We investigate the potential for controlling a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a one-dimensional optical superlattice. Our control strategy combines Bloch oscillations originating from accelerating the lattice and from time-dependent control of the superlattice parameters. We investigate two experimentally viable scenarios, very low and very high potential depths. We are able to exhibit a wide range of control over energy band populations using the superlattice control parameters. With this analysis we consider several examples of quantum state preparation in the superlattice structure that may be difficult to achieve in a regular lattice.
Original languageEnglish
Article number063629
JournalPhysical Review A (Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics)
Volume94
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 22 Dec 2016

Bibliographical note

9 pages, 11 figures

Keywords

  • quant-ph
  • cond-mat.quant-gas

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