Superfluidity versus Bloch oscillations in confined atomic gases

Details Superfluidity versus Bloch oscillations in confined atomic gases Superfluidity versus Bloch oscillations in confined atomic gases

2000-12-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0012442v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 100403 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.100403

We study the superfluid properties of (quasi) one-dimensional bosonic atom gases/liquids in traps with finite geometries in the presence of strong quantum fluctuations. Driving the condensate with a moving defect we find the nucleation rate for phase slips using instanton techniques. While phase slips are quenched in a ring resulting in a superfluid response, they proliferate in a tube geometry where we find Bloch oscillations in the chemical potential. These Bloch oscillations describe the individual tunneling of atoms through the defect and thus are a consequence of particle quantization.

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