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Probing quantum transport by engineering correlations in a speckle potential

Quantum Gases 2014-02-18 v2

Abstract

We develop a procedure to modify the correlations of a speckle potential. This procedure, that is suitable for spatial light modulator devices, allows one to increase the localization efficiency of the speckle in a narrow energy region whose position can be easily tuned. This peculiar energy-dependent localization behavior is explored by pulling the potential through a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the percentage of dragged atoms as a function of the pulling velocity depends on the potential correlations below a threshold of the disorder strength. Above this threshold, interference effects are no longer clearly observable during the condensate drag.

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@article{arxiv.1309.4902,
  title  = {Probing quantum transport by engineering correlations in a speckle potential},
  author = {Ardavan Alamir and Pablo Capuzzi and Samir Vartabi Kashanian and Patrizia Vignolo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.4902},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

8 pages, 8 figures, final version

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