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We utilize the combination of two standard trapping techniques, a magnetic trap and an optical trap in a Raman setup, to propose a versatile and tunable trap for cold atoms. The created potential provides several advantages over…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 S. Middelkamp , M. Mayle , I. Lesanovsky , P. Schmelcher

In the present paper, we investigate the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) loaded into an deep optical lattice of 1D, 2D and 3D, both analytically and numerically. We focus on the self-trapping state and the effect of the system…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ju-Kui Xue , Ai-Xia Zhang , Jie Liu

The dynamics of a 2D Bose-Einstein condensate in optical trap is studied taking into consideration fluctuations of the far-off-resonance laser field intensity. The problem is described in the frame of the mean field Gross-Pitaevskii…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kh. Abdullaev , B. B. Baizakov , V. V. Konotop

We study a composite photon-Bose condensed atoms (BEC) system in an optical lattice confined in a cavity. We show that the system is able to produce an effective photon-photon repulsion in the presence of an external pump. We predict for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-22 Aranya B. Bhattacherjee , ManMohan

Interferometry with trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) requires the development of techniques to recombine the two paths of the interferometer and map the accumulated phase difference to a measurable atom number difference. We…

Coherent wave states such as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which spontaneously form in an overpopulated magnon gas even at room temperature, have considerable potential for wave-based computing and information processing at microwave…

The occurrence of phase fluctuations due to thermal excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) is studied for a variety of temperatures and trap geometries. We observe the statistical nature of the appearence of phase fluctuations and…

We study low-lying collective modes of a horizontally elongated 87Rb condensate produced in a 3D magnetic harmonic trap with the addition of a 1D periodic potential which is provided by a laser standing-wave along the horizontal axis. While…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Fort , F. S. Cataliotti , L. Fallani , F. Ferlaino , P. Maddaloni , M. Inguscio

Considering an effectively attractive quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of atoms confined in a toroidal trap, we find that the system undergoes a phase transition from a uniform to a localized state, as the magnitude of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kavoulakis

Recently, the thulium atom has been cooled down to the temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation. While the condensate of the thulium atom has a lot of applications in quantum simulations and other areas of physics, it can also serve as a…

A method of entanglement production is suggested, based on the resonant generation of topological modes in systems with Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in optical or magnetic lattices. The method makes it possible to regulate the strength…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

We study the behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in an optical lattice. We first show how a self-trapping transition can be induced in the system by either increasing the number of atoms occupying a lattice site, or by raising the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 C. E. Creffield

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of $N$ atoms of repulsive interaction $\sim U_0$, in an elliptical trap, axially pierced by a Gaussian-intensity laser beam, forming an effective (quasi-2D) toroidal trap with minimum at radial…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Benakli , S. Raghavan , A. Smerzi , S. Fantoni , S. R. Shenoy

We present a combined computational and experimental study to optimize the efficiency of evaporative cooling for atoms in optical dipole traps. By employing a kinetic model of evaporation, we provide a strategy for determining the optimal…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-21 Abraham J. Olson , Robert J. Niffenegger , Yong P. Chen

We theoretically investigate the use of Bessel light beams generated using axicons for creating optical dipole traps for cold atoms and atomic waveguiding. Zeroth-order Bessel beams can be used to produce highly elongated dipole traps…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. Arlt , K. Dholakia , J. Soneson , E. M. Wright

We propose and analyze a scheme to generate squeezed light by storing a classical probe pulse in a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) and exploiting the nonlinear evolution caused by atom--atom collisions during the storage time. A…

This paper examines the feasibility of constructing an experiment which detects the atomic stimulation of a photon emission process. A beam of atoms (bosons) in an excited state is passed over an atomic trap which traps the atoms when they…

atom-ph · Physics 2009-10-28 J. J. Hope , C. M. Savage

The recent achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation of chromium atoms [1] has opened longed-for experimental access to a degenerate quantum gas with long-range and anisotropic interaction. Due to the large magnetic moment of chromium atoms…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Griesmaier , Jürgen Stuhler , Tilman Pfau

Atomic superfluids formed using Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a ring trap are currently being investigated in the context of superfluid hydrodynamics, quantum sensing and matter-wave interferometry. The characterization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Rahul Gupta , Pardeep Kumar , Rina Kanamoto , M. Bhattacharya , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

We develop a simple analytical model based on a variational method to explain the properties of trapped cylindrically symmetric Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) of varying degrees of anisotropy well into regimes of effective one dimension…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kunal Das