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arXiv:cond-mat/0407617 · Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Bogoliubov speed of sound for a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate in a 3d optical lattice

D Boers, Christoph Weiß, Martin Holthaus

Published Sep 1, 2004• 16 citations
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Abstract

We point out that the velocity of propagation of sound wavepackets in a Bose-Einstein condensate filling a three-dimensional cubic optical lattice undergoes a maximum with increasing lattice depth. For a realistic choice of parameters, the maximum sound velocity in a lattice condensate can exceed the sound velocity in a homogeneous condensate with the same average density by 30%. The maximum falls into the superfluid regime, and should be observable under currently achievable laboratory conditions.

DOI
10.1209/epl/i2004-10140-7

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