Parametric excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice

Details Parametric excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice Parametric excitation of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice

2004-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0410122v3

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Condensed Matter

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4 pages, 4 figures, more results added, to appear in PRA Rapid Communications

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10.1103/PhysRevA.71.061602

We study the response of a Bose-Einstein condensate to a periodic modulation of the depth of an optical lattice. Using Gross-Pitaevskii theory, we show that a modulation at frequency Omega drives the parametric excitation of Bogoliubov modes with frequency Omega/2. The ensuing nonlinear dynamics leads to a rapid broadening of the momentum distribution and a consequent large increase of the condensate size after free expansion. We show that this process does not require the presence of a large condensate depletion. Our results reproduce the main features of the spectrum measured in the superfluid phase by Stoeferle et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 130403 (2004).

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