Collisionally Induced Transport in Periodic Potentials

Details Collisionally Induced Transport in Periodic Potentials Collisionally Induced Transport in Periodic Potentials

2003-11-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0311261v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.160601

We study the transport of ultra cold atoms in a tight optical lattice. For identical fermions the system is insulating under an external force while for bosonic atoms it is conducting. This reflects the different collisional properties of the particles and reveals the role of inter-particle collisions in establishing a macroscopic transport in a perfectly periodic potential. Also in the case of fermions we can induce a transport by creating a collisional regime through the addition of bosons. We investigate the transport as a function of the collisional rate and we observe a transition from a regime in which the mobility increases with increasing collisional rate to one in which it decreases. We compare our data with a theoretical model for electron transport in solids introduced by Esaki and Tsu.

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