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Synthetic dimensions provide a powerful approach for simulating condensed matter physics in cold atoms and photonics, whereby a set of discrete degrees of freedom are coupled together and re-interpreted as lattice sites along an artificial…

Bloch oscillations refer to the periodic oscillation of a wavepacket in a lattice under a constant force. Typically, the oscillation has a fundamental period that corresponds to the wavepacket traversing the first Brillouin zone once. Here…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-31 Naveed Khan , Peng Wang , Qidong Fu , Ce Shang , Fangwei Ye

We demonstrate the phenomenon of directed diffusion in a symmetric periodic potential. This has been realized with cold atoms in a one-dimensional dissipative optical lattice. The stochastic process of optical pumping leads to a diffusive…

We present theoretical and numerical results on the dynamics of ultracold atoms in an accelerated single- and double-periodic optical lattice. In the single-periodic potential Bloch oscillations can be used to generate fast directed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-12 B. M. Breid , D. Witthaut , H. J. Korsch

We report on an experimental study of quantum transport of atoms in variable periodic optical potentials. The band structure of both ratchet-type asymmetric and symmetric lattice potentials is explored. The variable atom potential is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-03-01 Tobias Salger , Carsten Geckeler , Sebastian Kling , Martin Weitz

Dynamics of solitons of the Ablowitz-Ladik model in the presence of a random potential is studied. In absence of the random potential it is an integrable model and the solitons are stable. As a result of the random potential this stability…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-01-20 Zhi-Yuan Sun , Shmuel Fishman , Avy Soffer

The localization and scattering properties of potential wells or barriers uniformly moving on a lattice are strongly dependent on the drift velocity owing to violation of the Galilean invariance of the discrete Schr\"odinger equation. Here…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-03-25 Stefano Longhi

The connection between symmetries and conservation laws is a cornerstone of physics. It underlies Bloch's theorem which explains wave phenomena in all linear periodic systems. Here we demonstrate that, in a nonlinear grating with memory,…

Defects in tight-binding lattices generally destroy the onset of Bloch oscillations (BOs) and the periodic self-imaging of the wave packet due to the lack of an equally-spaced Wannier-Stark ladder spectrum. Here it is shown that localized…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-19 Stefano Longhi

We study a discrete Schr\"odinger equation with arbitrary long range hopping terms under the influence of an external force. The impact of long range hoppings on the single particle Bloch dynamics in the lattice is investigated. A closed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-10 J. Stockhofe , P. Schmelcher

Optical lattice plays an important role on stability and dynamics of quantum droplets. In this letter, we investigate the Bogoliubov excitation spectrum of quantum droplets in optical lattice in the thermodynamic limit. We classify the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-14 Yuhang Nie , Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Yang

The most general form for symmetric modes of nonlinear discrete-symmetry systems with nonlinearity depending on the modulus of the field is presented. Vortex solutions are demonstrated to behave as Bloch modes characterized by an angular…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Albert Ferrando

Bloch oscillations (BOs) refer to a periodically oscillatory motion of particle in lattice systems driven by a constant force. By temporally modulating acoustic waveguides, BOs can be generalized from spatial to frequency domain, opening…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Chengzhi Qin , Yugui Peng , Ying Li , Xuefeng Zhu , Bing Wang , Cheng-Wei Qiu , Peixiang Lu

We study Landau-Zener interband transitions for a non-symmetric optical lattice in the presence of an external force. We show that gain and losses of the light beam, as well as the relative occupation probabilities of the bands involved in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Morales-Molina , S. A. Reyes

We theoretically consider the amplification of THz radiation in a superlattice Bloch oscillator. The main dilemma in the realization of THz Bloch oscillator is finding operational conditions which allow simultaneously to achieve gain at THz…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 Timo Hyart , Kirill N. Alekseev , Ahti Leppanen , Erkki V. Thuneberg

The dynamics of a (quasi)one-dimensional interacting atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a tilted optical lattice is studied in a discrete mean-field approximation, i.e., in terms of the discrete nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation. If the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Edgar A. Gómez , Hans Jürgen Korsch

Geometric analogs of Bloch oscillations studied so far have relied on Berry curvature. We show that a weakly inhomogeneous electric field adds a distinct quantum-metric term to semiclassical wavepacket dynamics, generating an oscillatory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 M. Maneesh Kumar , Md Kaif Faiyaz , Sayan Sarkar , Amit Agarwal

We consider dynamics of a charged particle in a finite along the $x$ direction square lattice in the presence of normal to the lattice plane magnetic field and in-plane electric field aligned with the $y$ axis. For vanishing magnetic field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-03 Iliya Yu. Chesnokov , Andrey R. Kolovsky

We study the local dynamics of $L^{2}\left(\mathbb{R}\right)$-perturbations to the zero solution of spatially $2\pi$-periodic coefficient reaction-diffusion systems. In this case the spectrum of the linearization about the zero solution is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-03-01 Connor Smith

Synthetic photonic lattice with temporally controlled potentials is a versatile platform for realizing wave dynamics associated with physical areas of optics and quantum physics. Here, discrete optics in one-dimensionally synthetic photonic…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Zengrun Wen , Kaile Wang , Baole Lu , Xinyuan Qi , Haowei Chen , Jintao Bai