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We observe effects of collective atomic motion in a one-dimensional optical lattice coupled to an optomechanical system. In this hybrid atom-optomechanical system, the lattice light generates a coupling between the lattice atoms as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 Aline Vochezer , Tobias Kampschulte , Klemens Hammerer , Philipp Treutlein

Here, we propose a platform based on ultra-cold fermionic molecules trapped in optical lattices to simulate nonadiabatic effects, as they appear in certain molecular dynamical problems. The idea consists of a judicious choice of two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-25 Javier Argüello-Luengo , Alejandro González-Tudela , J. Ignacio Cirac

We investigate the coherent population trapping resonance induced by a polychromatic optical field with an asymmetric spectrum, i.e., whose sidebands equidistant from the carrier have unequal powers. A situation is considered where a…

We report on the experimental observation of an analog to a persistent alternating photocurrent in an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice. The dynamics is induced and sustained by an external harmonic confinement. While…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-02-22 J. Heinze , J. S. Krauser , N. Fläschner , B. Hundt , S. Götze , A. P. Itin , L. Mathey , K. Sengstock , C. Becker

We demonstrate that ultracold interacting bosonic atoms in an optical lattice show sub-Poissonian on-site and inter-site atom number fluctuations. The experimental observations agree with numerical predictions of the truncated Wigner…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-27 C. Gross , J. Esteve , M. K. Oberthaler , A. D. Martin , J. Ruostekoski

We have quantified a short term instability budget for an optical frequency standard based on cold, freely expanding calcium atoms. Such systems are the subject of renewed interest due to their high frequency stability and relative…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-08-17 J. A. Sherman , C. W. Oates

Atoms deeply trapped in magic wavelength optical lattices provide a Doppler- and collision-free dense ensemble of quantum emitters ideal for high precision spectroscopy. Thus, they are the basis of some of the best optical clock setups to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Sebastian Krämer , Laurin Ostermann , Helmut Ritsch

The out-of-equilibrium dynamics of finite ultracold bosonic ensembles in periodically driven one-dimensional optical lattices is investigated. Our study reveals that the driving enforces the bosons in different wells to oscillate in-phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-10-31 S. I. Mistakidis , T. Wulf , A. Negretti , P. Schmelcher

We study inelastic collisions between CaF molecules and $^{87}$Rb atoms in a dual-species magneto-optical trap. The presence of atoms increases the loss rate of molecules from the trap. By measuring the loss rates and density distributions,…

We explore the limits of atomic coherence and measurement precision in a 87Sr optical lattice clock. We perform a detailed characterization of key effects, including lattice Raman scattering and atomic collisions in a shallow lattice…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-05-13 Kyungtae Kim , Alexander Aeppli , William Warfield , Anjun Chu , Ana Maria Rey , Jun Ye

We report on the observation of a dc Stark frequency shift at the $10^{-13}$ level by comparing two strontium optical lattice clocks. This frequency shift arises from the presence of electric charges trapped on dielectric surfaces placed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-07-17 Jérôme Lodewyck , Michal Zawada , Luca Lorini , Mikhail Gurov , Pierre Lemonde

Anharmonic lattice vibrations play a key role in many physical phenomena. They govern the heat conductivity of solids, strongly affect the phonon spectra, play a prominent role in soft mode phase transitions, allow ultrafast engineering of…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-02-12 Gili Scharf , Tomer Hasharoni , Lara Donval , Leah Ben Gur , Alon Ron

Many-particle optical lattice clocks have the potential for unprecedented measurement precision and stability due to their low quantum projection noise. However, this potential has so far never been realized because clock stability has been…

Radio-frequency techniques were used to study ultracold fermions. We observed the absence of mean-field "clock" shifts, the dominant source of systematic error in current atomic clocks based on bosonic atoms. This is a direct consequence of…

We develop an interferometric technique for making time-resolved measurements of field-quadrature operators for nonequilibrium ultracold bosons in optical lattices. The technique exploits the internal state structure of magnetic atoms to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-14 Eite Tiesinga , Philip R. Johnson

Phase compensated optical fiber links enable high accuracy atomic clocks separated by thousands of kilometers to be compared with unprecedented statistical resolution. By searching for a daily variation of the frequency difference between…

We have studied the interference of degenerate quantum gases in a vertical optical lattice. The coherence of the atoms leads to an interference pattern when the atoms are released from the lattice. This has been shown for a Bose-Einstein…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Modugno , E. de Mirandes , F. Ferlaino , H. Ott , G. Roati , M. Inguscio

Existing optical lattice clocks demonstrate a high level of performance, but they remain complex experimental devices. In order to address a wider range of applications including those requiring transportable devices, it will be necessary…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 N. Poli , M. G. Tarallo , M. Schioppo , C. W. Oates , G. M. Tino

The experimental comparison of two thulium optical lattice clocks in a time interval of up to one hour has been carried out. The synchronous comparison of a clock transition in two independent atomic ensembles using a single ultrastable…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 A. Golovizin , D. Mishin , D. Provorchenko , D. Tregubov , N. Kolachevsky

We investigate the effects of stimulated scattering of optical lattice photons on atomic coherence times in a state-of-the art ${}^{87}\mathrm{Sr}$ optical lattice clock. Such scattering processes are found to limit the achievable coherence…