Transmittivity of a Bose-Einstein condensate on a lattice: interference from period doubling and the effect of disorder

Details Transmittivity of a Bose-Einstein condensate on a lattice: interference from period doubling and the effect of disorder Transmittivity of a Bose-Einstein condensate on a lattice: interference from period doubling and the effect of disorder

2003-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0304104v2

J. Phys. B 36 (2003) 4535-4546

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

13 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/0953-4075/36/22/013

We evaluate the particle current flowing in steady state through a Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a constant force in a quasi-onedimensional lattice and to attractive interactions from fermionic atoms that are localized in various configurations inside the lattice wells. The system is treated within a Bose-Hubbard tight binding model by an out-of-equilibrium Green's function approach. A new band gap opens up when the lattice period is doubled by locating the fermions in alternate wells and yields an interference pattern in the transmittivity on varying the intensity of the driving force. The positions of the transmittivity minima are determined by matching the period of Bloch oscillations and the time for tunnelling across the band gap. Massive disorder in the distribution of the fermions will wash out the interference pattern, but the same period doubling of the lattice can be experimentally realized in a four-beam set-up. We report illustrative numerical results for a mixture of 87Rb and 40K atoms in an optical lattice created by laser beams with a wavelength of 763 nm.

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