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We report on experiments studying transport properties of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice of spatial period $\lambda/2n$, where $n$ is an integer, realized with the dispersion of multiphoton Raman transitions. We…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-16 Tobias Salger , Gunnar Ritt , Carsten Geckeler , Sebastian Kling , Martin Weitz

We use a neural network approach to explore the inverse problem of Bloch oscillations in a monoatomic linear chain: given a signal describing the path of oscillations of electrons as a function of time, we determine the strength of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-11-11 José Antonio González , Saúl Hernández Ortiz , Carlos Eduardo López , Alfredo Raya

We experimentally investigate the quantum motion of an impurity atom that is immersed in a strongly interacting one-dimensional Bose liquid and is subject to an external force. We find that the momentum distribution of the impurity exhibits…

We show that, after a transformation, the dynamics of linear perturbations (spin waves) around a singular Bloch point soliton is formally equivalent to a quantum system of an electron in a magnetic monopole field. The analytical solution to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-12 R. G. Elías , V. L. Carvalho-Santos , A. S. Núñez , A. D. Verga

According to Faraday's law in classical physics, a varying magnetic field stimulates an electric eddy field. Intuitively, when a classical field is constant and imposed on a lattice, the Wannier-Stark ladders (WSL) can be established,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-15 H. P. Zhang , Z. Song

We study the dynamics of few interacting bosons in a one-dimensional lattice with dc bias. In the absence of interactions the system displays single particle Bloch oscillations. For strong interaction the Bloch oscillation regime reemerges…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Ramaz Khomeriki , Dmitry O. Krimer , Masudul Haque , Sergej Flach

The weak field magnetoresistance has seen a revived interest due to the distinct role played by the momentum-space Berry curvature of Bloch electrons. While most previous studies in this regard focus on the inter-scattering motion of…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-03-11 Cong Xiao , Hua Chen , Yang Gao , Di Xiao , Allan H. MacDonald , Qian Niu

In this paper we review some known results on the motion of Bloch Oscillators in the crystal momentum representation. We emphasize that the acceleration theorem, as usually stated by most of the authors, is incomplete, but in the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vincenzo Grecchi , Andrea Sacchetti

A photonic realization of Bloch oscillations (BOs) of two correlated electrons that move on a one-dimensional periodic lattice, based on spatial light transport in a square waveguide array with a defect line, is theoretically proposed. The…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-03 Stefano Longhi

The paper studies the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a 1D parabolic optical lattice, and excited by a sudden shift of the lattice center. Depending on the magnitude of the initial shift, the condensate undergoes either…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-07-29 A. V. Ponomarev , A. R. Kolovsky

Bloch Oscillations (BOs) of quantum particles manifest themselves as periodic spreading and re-localization of the associated wave functions when traversing lattice potentials subject to external gradient forces. Albeit BOs are deeply…

Semiclassical dynamics of Bloch electrons in a crystal under slowly varying deformation is developed in the geometric language of a lattice bundle. Berry curvatures and gradients of energy are introduced in terms of lattice covariant…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-10-03 Liang Dong , Qian Niu

We investigate the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in a tilted one-dimensional periodic lattice within the mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) description. Unlike in the linear case the Bloch oscillations decay because of nonlinear…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Witthaut , M. Werder , S. Mossmann , H. J. Korsch

We study the dynamics of electrons in crystalline solids in the presence of inhomogeneous external electric and magnetic fields. We present a manifestly gauge-invariant operator-based approach without relying on a semiclassical wavepacket…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Chen Xu , Andreas Haller , Suraj Hegde , Tobias Meng , Thomas L. Schmidt

Bloch oscillations (BOs) are a fundamental phenomenon by which a wave packet undergoes a periodic motion in a lattice when subjected to an external force. Observed in a wide range of synthetic lattice systems, BOs are intrinsically related…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Marco Di Liberto , Nathan Goldman , Giandomenico Palumbo

We develop a comprehensive theory for the effective dynamics of Bloch electrons based on symmetry. We begin with a scheme to systematically derive the irreducible representations (IRs) characterizing the Bloch functions. Starting from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-06 E. A. Fajardo , R. Winkler

We report the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the Bloch bands with off-diagonal periodic potential (ODPP), which simultaneously plays the role of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman field. This model can be realized using two independent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-13 Yue-Xin Huang , Wei Feng Zhuang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Han Pu , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

The time evolution of a two-level quantum mechanical system can be geometrically described using the Bloch sphere. By mapping the Bloch sphere evolution onto the dynamics of oscillating electric dipoles, we provide a physically intuitive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-31 Amar C. Vutha

Bloch oscillations are exotic phenomena describing the periodic motion of a wave packet subjected to the external force in a lattice, where the system possessing single- or multipleparticles could exhibit distinct oscillation behaviors. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-14 Weixuan Zhang , Hao Yuan , Haiteng Wang , Fengxiao Di , Na Sun , Xingen Zheng , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

We study dynamics of a mobile impurity moving in a one-dimensional quantum liquid. Such an impurity induces a strong non-linear depletion of the liquid around it. The dispersion relation of the combined object, called depleton, is a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-22 Michael Schecter , Dimitri Gangardt , Alex Kamenev