Coherent control of cold atoms in a optical lattice

H. L. Haroutyunyan, Gerard Nienhuis

P. J. Lee, Marco Anderlini, Benjamin L. Brown +3 more

Get PDF Email Share Share with Facebook Tweet This Post on reddit Share with LinkedIn Add to CiteULike Add to Mendeley Add to BibSonomy Get Citation Copy Citation Text P. J. Lee, M. Anderlini, B. L. Brown, J. Sebby-Strabley, W. D. Phillips, and J. V. Porto, "Coherent control of pairs of cold atoms in a double-well optical lattice," in Frontiers in Optics 2007/Laser Science XXIII/Organic Materials and Devices for Displays and Energy Conversion, OSA Technical Digest (CD) (Optica Publishing Group, 2007), paper LThD2. Export Citation BibTex Endnote (RIS) HTML Plain Text Citation alert Save article

Wen-Xiang Guo, Wu-Ming Liu

L. E. Reichl, Benjamin P. Holder, Paweł Danielewicz +2 more

We use the technique of Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage (STIRAP) to affect transport of ultracold atoms between two optical lattices in relative motion. We show, using Floquet analysis and degenerate perturbation theory, that the dynamics of atoms in a particular time‐dependent optical lattice system can be reduced to the 3‐level STIRAP model, allowing for a simple description of their coherent acceleration.

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Vaibhav Sharma, Erich J. Mueller

We present a sequence of driven-dissipative protocols for controlling cold atoms in tilted optical lattices. These experimentally accessible examples are templates that demonstrate how dissipation can be used to manipulate quantum many-body systems. We consider bosonic atoms trapped in a tilted optical lattice, immersed in a superfluid bath, and excited by coherent Raman lasers. With these ingredients, we are able to controllably transport atoms in the lattice and produce self-healing quantum states: a Mott insulator and the topologically ordered spin-1 Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki state.