Coherent cold collisions with neutral atoms in optical lattices

Coherent cold collisions with neutral atoms in optical lattices

By loading a Bose-Einstein condensate into a three-dimensional optical lattice potential, we have been able to demonstrate several fundamental aspects of coherent cold collisions between neutral atoms. We show experimentally how such collisions lead to a well-defined phase shift in the corresponding...

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Veröffentlicht in:Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences physical, and engineering sciences, 2003-07, Vol.361 (1808), p.1409-1416
Hauptverfasser: Bloch, Immanuel, Greiner, Markus, Mandel, Olaf, Häansch, Theodor W.
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Atomic interactions
Atoms
Bose Einstein condensates
Bose-Einstein Condensation
Dynamical evolution
Ground state
Lattice energy
Lead
Magnetic fields
Neutral atoms
Optical Lattices
Quantum Computation
Quantum entanglement
Ultracold Atoms
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Zusammenfassung:By loading a Bose-Einstein condensate into a three-dimensional optical lattice potential, we have been able to demonstrate several fundamental aspects of coherent cold collisions between neutral atoms. We show experimentally how such collisions lead to a well-defined phase shift in the corresponding many-body wave function. The experimental realization of such interactions can be fundamental for the simulation of complex condensed-matter-physics Hamiltonians, for the creation of large-scale entanglement and for the realization of quantum gates with neutral atoms.
ISSN:1364-503X
1471-2962
DOI:10.1098/rsta.2003.1210