J Hecker Denschlag et al 2002 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 35 3095 doi:10.1088/0953-4075/35/14/307
J Hecker Denschlag1, J E Simsarian2, H Häffner1, C McKenzie, A Browaeys, D Cho3, K Helmerson, S L Rolston and W D Phillips
Show affiliationsWe have performed a number of experiments with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one-dimensional optical lattice. Making use of the small momentum spread of a BEC and standard atom optics techniques, a high level of coherent control over an artificial solid-state system is demonstrated. We are able to load the BEC into the lattice ground state with a very high efficiency by adiabatically turning on the optical lattice. We coherently transfer population between lattice states and observe their evolution. Methods are developed and used to perform band spectroscopy. We use these techniques to build a BEC accelerator and a novel, coherent, large-momentum-transfer beam-splitter.
Issue 14 (28 July 2002)
Received 30 May 2002
Published 3 July 2002
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