Insulating Behavior of a Trapped Ideal Fermi Gas

Details Insulating Behavior of a Trapped Ideal Fermi Gas Insulating Behavior of a Trapped Ideal Fermi Gas

2004-01-30

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0401643v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.120401

We investigate theoretically and experimentally the center-of-mass motion of an ideal Fermi gas in a combined periodic and harmonic potential. We find a crossover from a conducting to an insulating regime as the Fermi energy moves from the first Bloch band into the bandgap of the lattice. The conducting regime is characterized by an oscillation of the cloud about the potential minimum, while in the insulating case the center of mass remains on one side of the potential.

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