Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice
Other Condensed Matter
2009-11-11 v1
Abstract
The phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator has been observed in a Na Bose-Einstein condensate. A dye laser detuned nm red of the Na SP transition was used to form the three dimensional optical lattice. The heating effects of the small detuning as well as the three-body decay processes constrained the timescale of the experiment. Certain lattice detunings were found to induce a large loss of atoms. These loss features were shown to be due to photoassociation of atoms to vibrational levels in the Na state.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0507288,
title = {Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice},
author = {K. Xu and Y. Liu and J. R. Abo-Shaeer and T. Mukaiyama and J. K. Chin and D. E. Miller and W. Ketterle and Kevin M. Jones and Eite Tiesinga},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0507288},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Figures somewhat compromised due to size reduction