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Physical Review A

Optomechanical coupling in a one-dimensional optical lattice

János K. Asbóth, Helmut Ritsch, P. Domokos

Published Jun 30, 2008• 47 citations
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Abstract

In a recent paper [J. K. Asboth et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 203008 (2007)] we have shown that traveling density wavelike collective oscillations can arise in an asymmetrically pumped optical lattice, and by increasing the lattice size or pump asymmetry, these waves can destabilize the structure even in the overdamped limit. The long-range interaction giving rise to collective motion stems from the back-action of the atoms on the field creating the lattice. In this paper we present a detailed description of these phenomena. We derive the force on a disk-shaped cloud of trapped particles including the back-action on the trapping light, and analyze its relation to the standard perturbative approach giving the ``dipole force'' and ``radiation pressure.'' We calculate the self-consistent lattice constant for both red and blue detuned lattices and find that it decreases---by the same amount in the two cases---as the pump asymmetry is increased. We present the detailed derivation of the lattice vibration eigenmodes using the transfer matrix method, which reveals that the instability is enhanced resonantly at certain settings of the asymmetry.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.77.063424

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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 between atoms and a micromechanical membrane oscillator. For large atom numbers we observe an instability in the coupled system, resulting in large-amplitude atom-membrane oscillations. We show that this behavior can be explained by light-mediated collective atomic motion in the lattice, which arises for large atom number, small atom-light detuning and asymmetric pumping of the lattice, in agreement with previous theoretical work. The model connects the optomechanical instability to a phase delay in the global atomic back-action onto the lattice light, which we observe in a direct measurement.
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We study the dynamics of a nonintegrable system comprising interacting cold bosons trapped in an optical lattice in one dimension by means of exact time-dependent numerical density-matrix renormalization group techniques. Particles are confined by a parabolic potential, and dipole oscillations are induced by displacing the trap center of a few lattice sites. Depending on the system parameters this motion can vary from undamped to overdamped. We study the dipole oscillations as a function of the lattice displacement, the particle density, and the strength of interparticle interactions. These results explain the recent experiment [C. D. Fertig et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 120403 (2005)].