Oscillations of atomic fermions in a one dimensional optical lattice
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-10 v1
Abstract
A semiclassical model is used to investigate oscillations of atomic fermions in a combined magnetic trap and one dimensional optical lattice potential following axial displacement of the trap. The oscillations are shown to have a characteristic small amplitude, damped behavior in the collisionless regime. The presence of a separatrix in the semiclassical Brillouin zone phase space is predicted and shown to produce a strongly asymmetric phase space distribution function.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402166,
title = {Oscillations of atomic fermions in a one dimensional optical lattice},
author = {T. A. B. Kennedy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402166},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages, 6 figures