Ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices
Abstract
For ultracold and Bose-condensed atoms contained in periodic optical potential wells the quantized nature of their motion is clearly visible. The motion of the atomic wavepacket can also be accurately controlled. For those systems the long-range character of the atomic interaction and of the external potential play a key role in the quantum mechanical evolution. The basic facets of the experimental and theoretical research for atoms within optical lattice structures will be reviewed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0209034,
title = {Ultracold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices},
author = {O. Morsch and E. Arimondo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0209034},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages, 8 figures. Chapter of the forthcoming "Lecture Notes in Physics" volume: ``Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Systems with Long Range Interactions'', T. Dauxois, S. Ruffo, E. Arimondo, M. Wilkens Eds., Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 602, Springer (2002). (see http://link.springer.de/series/lnpp/)