Creation of a dipolar superfluid in optical lattices
Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
We show that by loading a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of two different atomic species into an optical lattice, it is possible to achieve a Mott-insulator phase with exactly one atom of each species per lattice site. A subsequent photo-association leads to the formation of one heteronuclear molecule with a large electric dipole moment, at each lattice site. The melting of such dipolar Mott-insulator creates a dipolar superfluid, and eventually a dipolar molecular BEC.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0208375,
title = {Creation of a dipolar superfluid in optical lattices},
author = {B. Damski and L. Santos and E. Tiemann and M. Lewenstein and S. Kotochigova and P. Julienne and P. Zoller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0208375},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 2 eps figures