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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Transport and disruption of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

Robin C. Scott, A. Martin, T. M. Fromhold, Nicola Malossi, O. Morsch, Matteo Cristiani, E. Arimondo

Published Jan 1, 2004• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present experimental and theoretical studies of the transport of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices. For low lattice accelerations, Bragg reflection generates a train of solitons and vortex rings, which strongly disrupt the atom cloud.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.itue4

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