Lattice-ramp-induced dynamics in an interacting Bose-Bose mixture

We investigate a bosonic quantum gas consisting of two interacting species in an optical lattice at zero and finite temperature. The equilibrium properties and dynamics of this system are obtained by means of the Gutzwiller mean-field method. In particular we model recent experiments where the ramp-...

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Published in:	Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Vol. 81; no. 4
Main Authors:	Wernsdorfer, Julia, Snoek, Michiel, Hofstetter, Walter
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 19-04-2010
Subjects:	BOSONS CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS EQUILIBRIUM FUNCTIONS MANY-BODY PROBLEM MEAN-FIELD THEORY OSCILLATIONS TUNNEL EFFECT
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Summary:	We investigate a bosonic quantum gas consisting of two interacting species in an optical lattice at zero and finite temperature. The equilibrium properties and dynamics of this system are obtained by means of the Gutzwiller mean-field method. In particular we model recent experiments where the ramp-up of the optical lattice occurs on a time scale comparable to the tunneling time of the bosons. We demonstrate the violation of adiabaticity of this process with respect to the many-body quantum states, and we reproduce and explain the oscillations of the visibility as a function of ramp-up time, as seen in experiments.
ISSN:	1050-2947 1094-1622
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043620