Inducing Transport in a Dissipation-Free Lattice with Super Bloch Oscillations

Details Inducing Transport in a Dissipation-Free Lattice with Super Bloch Oscillations Inducing Transport in a Dissipation-Free Lattice with Super Bloch Oscillations

2010-01-08

arxiv.org/abs/1001.1206v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 200403 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Quantum Gases

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.200403

Particles in a perfect lattice potential perform Bloch oscillations when subject to a constant force, leading to localization and preventing conductivity. For a weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of Cs atoms, we observe giant center-of-mass oscillations in position space with a displacement across hundreds of lattice sites when we add a periodic modulation to the force near the Bloch frequency. We study the dependence of these "super" Bloch oscillations on lattice depth, modulation amplitude, and modulation frequency and show that they provide a means to induce linear transport in a dissipation-free lattice. Surprisingly, we find that, for an interacting quantum system, super Bloch oscillations strongly suppress the appearance of dynamical instabilities and, for our parameters, increase the phase-coherence time by more than a factor of hundred.

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