Transport and resonances in kicked Bose-Einstein condensates

Ishan Talukdar

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations

Abstract

Scope and Method of Study: A purpose of this research was to study the scaling behavior of resonances of a periodically kicked quantum system. Specifically, a model known as a quantum delta-kicked rotor (QDKR) was implemented with a 87 Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate. Two variants of this system, a quantum delta-kicked accelerator (QDKA) and a quantum ratchet, were also realized experimentally and used to study quantum transport. Furthermore, experiments were undertaken to introduce mean-field interactions in these systems through an Optical Feshbach resonance.

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