7 research outputs found
Momentum-space atom correlations in a Mott insulator
We report on the investigation of the three-dimensional single-atom-resolved
distributions of bosonic Mott insulators in momentum-space. Firstly, we measure
the two-body and three-body correlations deep in the Mott regime, finding a
perfectly contrasted bunching whose periodicity reproduces the reciprocal
lattice. In addition, we show that the two-body correlation length is inversely
proportional to the in-trap size of the Mott state with a pre-factor in
agreement with the prediction for an incoherent state occupying a uniformly
filled lattice. Our findings indicate that the momentum-space correlations of a
Mott insulator at small tunnelling is that of a many-body ground-state with
Gaussian statistics. Secondly, in the Mott insulating regime with increasing
tunnelling, we extract the spectral weight of the quasi-particles from the
momentum density profiles. On approaching the transition towards a superfluid,
the momentum spread of the spectral weight is found to decrease as a result of
the increased mobility of the quasi-particles in the lattice. While the shapes
of the observed spectral weight agree with the ones predicted by perturbative
many-body calculations, the fitted mobilities are larger than the theoretical
ones. This discrepancy is similar to that previously reported on the
time-of-flight visibility.Comment: 13 pages, 10 figure
Hanbury Brown and Twiss bunching of phonons and of the quantum depletion in an interacting Bose gas
We report the realisation of a Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT)-like experiment with a gas of interacting bosons at low temperatures. The low-temperature regime is reached in a three-dimensional optical lattice and atom-atom correlations are extracted from the detection of individual metastable Helium atoms after a long free-fall. We observe a HBT bunching in the non-condensed fraction of the gas whose properties strongly deviate from the HBT signals expected for non-interacting bosons. In addition, we show that the measured correlations reflect the peculiar quantum statistics of atoms belonging to the quantum depletion and of the Bogoliubov phonons, {}, of collective excitations of the many-body quantum state. Our results demonstrate that atom-atom correlations provide information about the quantum state of interacting particles, extending the interest of HBT-like experiments beyond the case of non-interacting particles
Certifying the adiabatic preparation of ultracold lattice bosons in the vicinity of the Mott transition
5 pages + Supp. MatInternational audienceWe present a joint experimental and theoretical analysis to assess the adiabatic experimental preparation of ultracold bosons in optical lattices aimed at simulating the three-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model. Thermometry of lattice gases is realized from the superfluid to the Mott regime by combining the measurement of three-dimensional momentum-space densities with ab-initio quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) calculations of the same quantity. The measured temperatures across the superfluid-to-Mott transition are in agreement with isentropic lines reconstructed via QMC for the experimental parameters of interest, with a conserved entropy per particle of . In addition, the Fisher information associated with this thermometry method shows that the latter is most accurate in the critical regime close to the Mott transition, as confirmed in the experiment. These results prove that equilibrium states of the Bose-Hubbard model - including those in the quantum-critical regime above the Mott transition - can be adiabatically prepared in cold-atom apparatus
Individual effect of components of defibrillation waveform on the contractile function and intracellular calcium dynamics of cardiomyocytes
We investigate two-body collisions occurring during the time-of-flight
expansion of interacting three-dimensional lattice Bose superfluids. The number
of collisions is extracted from the observed s-wave scattering halos located
between the diffraction peaks of the superfluids. These faint halos can be
monitored thanks to the large dynamical range in densities associated with
detecting individual metastable Helium atoms. We monitor the number of
collisions as a function of the total atom number and of the amplitude of the
lattice, in a regime where the number of trapped atoms per lattice site is
large. In addition, we introduce a classical model of collisions that
quantitatively describes the experiment without adjustable parameters. Finally,
the present work validates quantitatively the assumption of a ballistic
expansion when investigating the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian with a unity
occupation of the lattice.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure