English

Local and spatially extended sub-Poisson atom number fluctuations in optical lattices

Quantum Gases 2011-07-27 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate that ultracold interacting bosonic atoms in an optical lattice show sub-Poissonian on-site and inter-site atom number fluctuations. The experimental observations agree with numerical predictions of the truncated Wigner approximation. The correlations persist in the presence of multi-mode atom dynamics and even over large spatially extended samples involving several sites and large populations.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1008.4603,
  title  = {Local and spatially extended sub-Poisson atom number fluctuations in optical lattices},
  author = {C. Gross and J. Esteve and M. K. Oberthaler and A. D. Martin and J. Ruostekoski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1008.4603},
  year   = {2011}
}