6 Ja n 20 09 Atom chips and one - dimensional Bose gases

Ja n 20 09 Atom chips and one - dimensional Bose gases

Atom chips and one-dimensional Bose gases

2 Regimes of 1D gases 2 2.1 Strongly versus weakly interacting regimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2.2 Nearly ideal gas regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Quasi-condensate regime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 2.3.1 Density fluctuations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 2.3.2 Phase fluc...

Ja n 20 05 Superfluid to Mott insulator transition in one , two , and three dimensions

We have created one-, two-, and three-dimensional quantum gases and study the superfluid to Mott insulator transition. Measurements of the transition using Bragg spectroscopy show that the excitation spectra of the low-dimensional superfluids differ significantly from the three-dimensional case. A low dimensional gas can be created in a trap when the confining potential restricts the motion of ...

Combined chips for atom optics

We present experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates on a combined atom chip. The combined structure consists of a large-scale “carrier chip” and smaller “atom-optics chips,” containing micron-sized elements. This allows us to work with condensates very close to chip surfaces without suffering from fragmentation or losses due to thermally driven spin flips. Precise three-dimensional positionin...

Ultracold quantum gases in one - dimensional optical lattice potentials – nonlinear matter wave dynamics –

We investigate experimentally and theoretically the nonlinear propagation of Rb Bose Einstein condensates in a trap with cylindrical symmetry. An additional weak periodic potential which encloses an angle with the symmetry axis of the waveguide is applied. The observed complex wave packet dynamics results from the coupling of transverse and longitudinal motion. We show that the experimental obs...