冷原子或冷分子囚禁的可控制光学双阱

提出了一种采用单光束照明二元π相位板与透镜组合系统产生的适用于冷原子与分子囚 禁的可控制光学双阱方案.计算了双阱的光强分布，研究了双阱到单阱的演化过程，并导出了双阱几何参数、光强分布、强度梯度及其曲率与光学系统参数间的解析关系.研究发现， 通过相对移动二元相位板可实现光学双阱到单阱的连续双向演化，得到了双阱间距与相位板移动距离的关系.该方案不仅简单可行、操作方便，而且在原子物理、原子光学、分子光学和量子光学领域中有着广阔的应用前景. 关键词： 二元相位板 可控制光学双阱 原子囚禁 原子光学 分子光学     

实现冷原子或冷分子囚禁的可控制光学四阱

提出了一种利用单光束照明二元π相位板与透镜组合系统实现冷原子或冷分子囚禁的可控制光学四阱新方案.计算了四阱的光强分布，讨论了从光学四阱到双阱或到单阱的演化过程，并导出了四阱和双阱几何参数、光强分布、强度梯度及其曲率与光学透镜系统参数间的解析关系.研究表明，通过相对移动二元π相位板可实现光学四阱到双阱或到单阱的连续双向演化，获得了四阱或双阱间距与相位板移动距离的关系.该方案在超冷原子物理、冷分子物理、原子光学、分子光学和量子光学，甚至量子计算及信息处理等领域中有着广阔的应用前景. 关键词： 二元π相位板 可控制光学四阱 原子分子囚禁 原子光学     

采用Damman光栅实现冷原子或冷分子囚禁的光阱阵列

提出了一种采用Damman光栅和球面透镜组合光学系统产生二维光阱阵列的新方案. 在使用红失谐高斯激光束照射的条件下，推导了计算光阱阵列的周期、光强分布、光强梯度和光阱几何参数的经验公式，讨论了此光阱阵列的特点以及在原子光学和分子光学中的应用. 研究结果表明，这种光阱阵列方案比已有的光阱阵列方案更为简单可行、操作方便，非常适用于冷原子或冷分子的阵列囚禁，以及制备新颖的光学晶格. 关键词： 冷原子或冷分子 光阱阵列 Damman光栅 光偶极势     

实现冷原子、冷分子光学囚禁的组合三光学势阱方案

提出了一种利用单束平面光波照明液晶空间光相位调制器与透镜组合系统实现在透镜焦平面上的可演化组合三光学势阱方案.分析了该组合三光学势阱的形成原理,计算了势阱的相关特征参数,研究了从组合三光学势阱到双阱或到单阱的双向演化过程.最后,探讨了该组合三光学势阱及其新颖三阱光学晶格方案在实现物质波四波混频、三原子样品冷碰撞性质研究等领域中潜在应用前景. 关键词： 原子光学 原子分子囚禁 液晶空间光相位调制器 组合三光学势阱     

Transport of cold atoms in optical lattices

The work discusses transport of cold atoms in optical lattices. Two related but different problems are considered: interacting Bose atoms subject to a static field (i.e., the atoms in a tilted lattice); and non-interacting atoms in a tilted lattice in the presence of a buffer gas. For these two systems we found, respectively: periodic, quasiperiodic, or decaying Bloch oscillations, as it depends on the strength of atom-atom interactions and the magnitude of the static field; diffusive directed current of atoms, similar to the electron current in ordinary conductors.     

一种实现冷原子(或冷分子)囚禁的可控制纵向光学双阱

提出了一种新颖的实现冷原子(或冷分子)囚禁的可控制纵向光学双阱方案，它由一个二元π相位板及一会聚透镜所组成，其π相位板由两个面积相等的具有0和π相位的同心圆环组成. 当一平面光波通过此光学系统时将在光轴上透镜焦点两侧形成一个光学双阱，如果调节入射到二元π相位板上光束横截面的半径大小，即可实现从光学双阱到单阱的连续演变，或由单阱到双阱的连续变化. 介绍了本方案产生可控制光学双阱的基本原理，给出了形成光学双阱的最佳几何参数，研究了双阱、单阱及其演化过程的光阱参数、光强分布等与光学系统参数间的关系. 该方案不仅可用于双样品原子(分子)的光学囚禁及其全光型玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC)的实现，而且可用于研究超冷原子(或分子)物质波的干涉，或构成双层2D光阱列阵，甚至用于制备新颖的双层2D光学晶格. 关键词： 二元π相位板 可控制光学双阱 双样品囚禁 光学晶格     

可操控二种冷原子或冷分子样品的光学双阱新方案及其实验研究

提出了一种构建可囚禁与操控二种冷原子或冷分子样品的光学双阱的新方案,该方案采用常用的液晶空间光调制器作为分光器件,分光调制函数类似二元相位光栅;对提出的方案进行了模拟实验研究,并研究了从光学双阱到单阱的双向演化过程,该光学双阱的模拟实验结果表明与理论方案相符,双阱的操控性好,有利于二种不同的冷原子或冷分子样品的装载与操控等相关实验研究. 关键词： 原子光学 原子分子囚禁 液晶空间光相位调制器 光学双阱     

Proposal for a chaotic ratchet using cold atoms in optical lattices

We investigate a new type of quantum ratchet which may be realized by cold atoms in a double-well optical lattice, pulsed with unequal periods. The classical dynamics is chaotic and we find the classical diffusion rate D is asymmetric in momentum up to a finite time t(r). The quantum behavior produces a corresponding asymmetry in the momentum distribution which is "frozen-in" by dynamical localization provided the break time t(*)>or=t(r). We conclude that the cold atom ratchets require Db/ variant Planck's over 2pi approximately 1, where b is a small deviation from period-one pulses.     

Quantum phase transition of cold atoms trapped in optical lattices

We review our recent theoretical advances in phase transition of cold atoms in optical lattices, such as triangular lattice, honeycomb lattice, and Kagomé lattice. By employing the new developed numerical methods called dynamical cluster approximation and cellular dynamical mean-field theory, the properties in different phases of cold atoms in optical lattices are studied, such as density of states, Fermi surface and double occupancy. On triangular lattice, a reentrant behavior of phase translation line between Fermi liquid state and pseudogap state is found due to the Kondo effect. We find the system undergoes a second order Mott transition from a metallic state into a Mott insulator state on honeycomb lattice and triangular Kagomé lattice. The stability of quantum spin Hall phase towards interaction on honeycomb lattice with spin-orbital coupling is systematically discussed. And we investigate the transition from quantum spin Hall insulator to normal insulator in Kagomé lattice which includes a nearest-neighbor intrinsic spin-orbit coupling and a trimerized Hamiltonian. In addition, we propose the experimental protocols to observe these phase transition of cold atoms in optical lattices.     

New bloch period for interacting cold atoms in 1D optical lattices

This paper studies Bloch oscillations of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice, in the presence of atom-atom interactions. A new, interaction-induced Bloch period is identified. Analytical results are corroborated by realistic numerical calculations.     

用光晶格模拟狄拉克、外尔和麦克斯韦方程

相对论性量子力学波动方程,如狄拉克、外尔和麦克斯韦方程,是描述微观粒子运动的基石.最近的实验和理论研究表明,冷原子系统中几乎所有参数都可精确调控,因此冷原子系统被认为是实现量子模拟的理想平台,可以用来研究高能和凝聚态物理中的一些基本问题.本文介绍了设计原子光晶格哈密顿量的思路和方法,主要涉及激光辅助跳跃的理论.基于这些方法,物理学界提出了利用光晶格体系模拟相对论性量子力学波动方程,包括狄拉克、外尔和麦克斯韦方程等,并且预言了一些在基本粒子物理中很难观察到,但在冷原子体系可能观察到的物理现象.本文综述了国际上此领域的研究进展.     

Microwave traps for cold polar molecules

We discuss the possibility of trapping polar molecules in the standing-wave electromagnetic field of a microwave resonant cavity. Such a trap has several novel features that make it very attractive for the development of ultracold molecule sources. Using commonly available technologies, microwave traps can be built with large depth (up to several Kelvin) and acceptance volume (up to several cm³), suitable for efficient loading with currently available sources of cold polar molecules. Unlike most previous traps for molecules, this technology can be used to confine the strong-field seeking absolute ground state of the molecule, in a free-space maximum of the microwave electric field. Such ground state molecules should be immune to inelastic collisional losses. We calculate elastic collision cross-sections for the trapped molecules, due to the electrical polarization of the molecules at the trap center, and find that they are extraordinarily large. Thus, molecules in a microwave trap should be very amenable to sympathetic and/or evaporative cooling. The combination of these properties seems to open a path to producing large samples of polar molecules at temperatures much lower than has been previously possible.Received: 30 June 2004, Published online: 23 November 2004PACS: 33.80.Ps Optical cooling of molecules; trapping - 34.50.-s Scattering of atoms and molecules - 33.80.-b Photon interactions with molecules - 33.55.Be Zeeman and Stark effects     

High-flux beam source for cold, slow atoms or molecules

We demonstrate and characterize a high-flux beam source for cold, slow atoms or molecules. The desired species is vaporized using laser ablation, then cooled by thermalization in a cryogenic cell of buffer gas. The beam is formed by particles exiting a hole in the buffer gas cell. We characterize the properties of the beam (flux, forward velocity, temperature) for both an atom (Na) and a molecule (PbO) under varying buffer gas density, and discuss conditions for optimizing these beam parameters. Our source compares favorably to existing techniques of beam formation, for a variety of applications.     

Echo responses of an ensemble of cold atoms in optical lattices

The dynamics of an ultracold dilute boson gas in an optical lattice is described in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model in which the parameters of the system are controlled by light. Within this model, an ensemble of Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in cells of a double optical lattice generates an echo response in the quantum-mechanical probability current. The echo signal is excited by biharmonic radiation pulses under two-photon (Raman) resonance conditions. The time profile of the echo signal and the role played by the inhomogeneous broadening and the interaction of atoms in the formation of the boson echo are discussed.     

一种新颖的表面光波导型原子(或分子)分束器

提出了一种采用二元π位相板与柱面透镜组合而构成表面光波导型原子（或分子）分束器及其Mach-Zehnder干涉仪与X-分束器列阵的新方案，介绍了本方案的物理思想与基本原理，导出了光强分布、强度梯度、分束距离和分束路径的宽度与光学系统参数间的解析关系，并分析和讨论了本方案的潜在应用及其可行性. 研究表明，本方案设计新颖、光路简单，便于与其他元件组合构成具有表面微结构的集成原子（或分子）光学元器件及其全光型原子（或分子）芯片. 关键词： 原子（或分子）光波导 原子（或分子）分束器 原子（或分子）芯片 二元π位相板     

Quantum insulating states of F=2 cold atoms in optical lattices

In this Letter we study various spin correlated insulating states of F=2 cold atoms in optical lattices. We find that the effective spin exchange interaction due to virtual hopping contains an octopole coupling between two neighboring lattice sites. Depending on scattering lengths and numbers of particles per site the ground states are either rotationally invariant dimer or trimer Mott insulators or insulating states with various spin orders. Three spin-ordered insulating phases are ferromagnetic, cyclic, and nematic Mott insulators. We estimate the phase boundaries for states with different numbers of atoms per lattice site.     

Localization of cold atoms in state-dependent optical lattices via a Rabi Pulse

We propose a novel realization of Anderson localization in nonequilibrium states of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice. A Rabi pulse transfers part of the population to a different internal state with infinite effective mass. These frozen atoms create a quantum superposition of different disorder potentials, localizing the mobile atoms. For weakly interacting mobile atoms, Anderson localization is obtained. The localization length increases with increasing disorder and decreasing interaction strength, contrary to the expectation for equilibrium localization.     

Controllable optical multi-well trap and its optical lattices using compounded cosine patterns

This paper proposes a flexible scheme to form various optical multi-well traps for cold atoms or molecules by using a simple optical system composed of an compounded amplitude cosine-only grating and a single lens illuminated by a plane light wave or a Gaussian beam.Dynamic manipulation and evolution of multi-well trap can be easily implemented by controlling the modulation frequency of the cosine patterns.It also discusses how to expand this multi-well trap to two-dimensional lattices with single-or multi-well trap by using an orthogonally or non-orthogonally modulated grating,as well as using incoherent multi-beam illumination,and these results show that all the symmetric structures of two-dimensional Bravais lattices can be obtained facilely by using proposed scheme.     

Proposals of stable optical traps for neutral atoms

Proposals of three dimensional stable optical traps for neutral atoms are presented. Two different laser beam configurations, separately optimized for trapping and cooling, act alternately on the same atomic transition, or simultaneously on two different transitions. Large values are predicted for the ratio optical potential depths over residual kinetic energy.     

Zoo of quantum phases and excitations of cold bosonic atoms in optical lattices

Quantum phases and phase transitions of weakly to strongly interacting bosonic atoms in deep to shallow optical lattices are described by a single multiorbital mean-field approach in real space. For weakly interacting bosons in one dimension, the critical value of the superfluid to Mott insulator (MI) transition found is in excellent agreement with many-body treatments of the Bose-Hubbard model. For strongly interacting bosons, (i) additional MI phases appear, for which two (or more) atoms residing in each site undergo a Tonks-Girardeau-like transition and localize, and (ii) on-site excitation becomes the excitation lowest in energy. Experimental implications are discussed.