Interference pattern and visibility of a Mott insulator

Details Interference pattern and visibility of a Mott insulator Interference pattern and visibility of a Mott insulator

2005-07-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507087v2

Phys. Rev. A 72, 053606 (2005)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.72.053606

We analyze theoretically the experiment reported in [F. Gerbier et al, cond-mat/0503452], where the interference pattern produced by an expanding atomic cloud in the Mott insulator regime was observed. This interference pattern, indicative of short-range coherence in the system, could be traced back to the presence of a small amount of particle/hole pairs in the insulating phase for finite lattice depths. In this paper, we analyze the influence of these pairs on the interference pattern using a random phase approximation, and derive the corresponding visibility. We also account for the inhomogeneity inherent to atom traps in a local density approximation. The calculations reproduce the experimental observations, except for very large lattice depths. The deviation from the measurement in this range is attributed to the increasing importance of non-adiabatic effects.

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