Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice

Details Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice Bose-Einstein condensation in an optical lattice

2007-07-13

arxiv.org/abs/0707.2109v1

Phys. Rev. A 76, 053620 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

10 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053620

In this paper we develop an analytic expression for the critical temperature for a gas of ideal bosons in a combined harmonic lattice potential, relevant to current experiments using optical lattices. We give corrections to the critical temperature arising from effective mass modifications of the low energy spectrum, finite size effects and excited band states. We compute the critical temperature using numerical methods and compare to our analytic result. We study condensation in an optical lattice over a wide parameter regime and demonstrate that the critical temperature can be increased or reduced relative to the purely harmonic case by adjusting the harmonic trap frequency. We show that a simple numerical procedure based on a piecewise analytic density of states provides an accurate prediction for the critical temperature.

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