506 research outputs found
Dynamics of dark solitons in elongated Bose-Einstein condensates
We find two types of moving dark soliton textures in elongated Bose-Einstein
condensates: non-stationary kinks and proper dark solitons. The former have a
curved notch region and rapidly decay by emitting phonons and/or proper dark
solitons. The proper moving solitons are characterized by a flat notch region
and we obtain the diagram of their dynamical stability. At finite temperatures
the dynamically stable solitons decay due to the thermodynamic instability. We
develop a theory of their dissipative dynamics and explain experimental data.Comment: ~ 5 pages, 1 figur
A Waveguide for Bose-Einstein Condensates
We report on the creation of Bose-Einstein condensates of Rb in a
specially designed hybrid, dipole and magnetic trap. This trap naturally allows
the coherent transfer of matter waves into a pure dipole potential waveguide
based on a doughnut beam. Specifically, we present studies of the coherence of
the ensemble in the hybrid trap and during the evolution in the waveguide by
means of an autocorrelation interferometer scheme. By monitoring the expansion
of the ensemble in the waveguide we observe a mean field dominated acceleration
on a much longer time scale than in the free 3D expansion. Both the
autocorrelation interference and the pure expansion measurements are in
excellent agreement with theoretical predictions of the ensemble dynamics
Microoptical Realization of Arrays of Selectively Addressable Dipole Traps: A Scalable Configuration for Quantum Computation with Atomic Qubits
We experimentally demonstrate novel structures for the realisation of
registers of atomic qubits: We trap neutral atoms in one and two-dimensional
arrays of far-detuned dipole traps obtained by focusing a red-detuned laser
beam with a microfabricated array of microlenses. We are able to selectively
address individual trap sites due to their large lateral separation of 125 mu
m. We initialize and read out different internal states for the individual
sites. We also create two interleaved sets of trap arrays with adjustable
separation, as required for many proposed implementations of quantum gate
operations
A compact dual atom interferometer gyroscope based on laser-cooled rubidium
We present a compact and transportable inertial sensor for precision sensing
of rotations and accelerations. The sensor consists of a dual Mach-Zehnder-type
atom interferometer operated with laser-cooled Rb. Raman processes are
employed to coherently manipulate the matter waves. We describe and
characterize the experimental apparatus. A method for passing from a compact
geometry to an extended interferometer with three independent atom-light
interaction zones is proposed and investigated. The extended geometry will
enhance the sensitivity by more than two orders of magnitude which is necessary
to achieve sensitivities better than rad/s/.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure
Dynamics of Bloch Oscillations in Disordered Lattice Potentials
We present a detailed analysis of the dynamics of Bloch oscillations of
Bose-Einstein condensates in disordered lattice potentials. Due to the disorder
and the interparticle interactions these oscillations undergo a dephasing,
reflected in a damping of the center of mass oscillations, which should be
observable under realistic experimental conditions. The interplay between
interactions and disorder is far from trivial, ranging from an
interaction-enhanced damping due to modulational instability for strong
interactions, to an interaction-reduced damping due to a dynamical screening of
the disorder potential
Quantum computing with spatially delocalized qubits
We analyze the operation of quantum gates for neutral atoms with qubits that
are delocalized in space, i.e., the computational basis states are defined by
the presence of a neutral atom in the ground state of one out of two trapping
potentials. The implementation of single qubit gates as well as a controlled
phase gate between two qubits is discussed and explicit calculations are
presented for rubidium atoms in optical microtraps. Furthermore, we show how
multi-qubit highly entangled states can be created in this scheme.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
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