WIAS Preprint No. 1263, (2007)

Transport behaviour of a Bose--Einstein condensate in a bichromatic optical lattice


Authors

  • Bhattacharjee, Aranya
  • Pietrzyk, Monika

2010 Mathematics Subject Classification

  • 78A60

2008 Physics and Astronomy Classification Scheme

  • 03.75.Lm 03.75.Kk 32.80.Lg

Keywords

  • 0:0:optical lattice, Bose Einstein condensate, Gross-Pitaevskii equation

DOI

10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.1263

Abstract

The Bloch and dipole oscillations of a Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical superlattice is investigated. We show that the effective mass increases in an optical superlattice, which leads to localization of the BEC, in accordance with recent experimental observations [17]. In addition, we find that the secondary optical lattice is a useful additional tool to manipulate the dynamics of the atoms.

Appeared in

  • Cent. Eur. J. Math., 6 (2008) pp. 26-32.

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