Published November 2006 | Version v1
Journal article

Nonequilibrium coherence dynamics of a soft boson lattice

  • 1. Physics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, California, 94305 (United States)
  • 2. Physics and Astronomy Department, Union College, Schenectady, New York 12308 (United States)
  • 3. Physics Department, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215 (United States)

Description

We study the nonequilibrium evolution of the phase coherence of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional optical lattice as the lattice array is suddenly quenched from a highly-number-squeezed to a superfluid state. We observe slowly damped phase coherence oscillations in the regime of large filling factor (∼100 bosons per site) at a frequency proportional to the generalized Josephson frequency

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 051601-051601.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39004157
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSONS; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; QUANTUM DECOHERENCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SUPERFLUIDITY
Descriptors DEC
MECHANICS

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