Wannier-Stark Ladders in Driven Optical Lattices

  • The paper studies the effect of a weak periodic driving on metastable Wannier-Stark states. The decay rate of the ground Wannier-Stark states as a continuous function of the driving frequency is calculated numerically. The theoretical results are compared with experimental data of Wilkinson et at. [Phys.Rev.Lett.76, 4512 (1996)] obtained for cold sodium atoms in an accelerated optical lattice.

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Author:Markus Glück, Hankel Michael, Andrey R. Kolovsky, Hans Jürgen Korsch
URN:urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-10078
Document Type:Article
Language of publication:English
Year of Completion:2000
Year of first Publication:2000
Publishing Institution:Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
Date of the Publication (Server):2000/03/10
Tag:AC-DC-Wannier-Stark systems; lifetime statistics; lifetimes; optical lattices; resonances
Faculties / Organisational entities:Kaiserslautern - Fachbereich Physik
DDC-Cassification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 530 Physik
Licence (German):Standard gemäß KLUEDO-Leitlinien vor dem 27.05.2011