Mott-insulator transition in a two-dimensional atomic Bose gas

Cold atoms in periodic potentials are versatile quantum systems for implementing simple models prevalent in condensed matter theory. Here we realize the 2D Bose-Hubbard model by loading a Bose-Einstein condensate into an optical lattice, and study the resulting Mott insulator. The measured momentum distributions agree quantitatively with theory (no adjustable parameters). In these systems, the Mott insulator forms in a spatially discrete shell structure which we probe by focusing on correlations in atom shot noise. These correlations show a marked dependence on the lattice depth, consistent with the changing size of the insulating shell expected from simple arguments.     

Quantum diffusion of matter waves in 2D speckle potentials

This paper investigates quantum diffusion of matter waves in two-dimensional random potentials, focussing on expanding Bose-Einstein condensates in spatially correlated optical speckle potentials. Special care is taken to describe the effect of dephasing, finite system size, and an initial momentum distribution. We derive general expressions for the interference-renormalized diffusion constant, the disorder-averaged probability density distribution, the variance of the expanding atomic cloud, and the localized fraction of atoms. These quantities are studied in detail for the special case of an inverted-parabola momentum distribution as obtained from an expanding condensate in the Thomas-Fermi regime. Lastly, we derive quantitative criteria for the unambiguous observation of localization effects in a possible 2D experiment.     

Atoms in a radio-frequency-dressed optical lattice

We load cold atoms into an optical lattice dramatically reshaped by radio-frequency coupling of state-dependent lattice potentials. This radio-frequency dressing changes the unit cell of the lattice at a subwavelength scale, such that its curvature and topology departs strongly from that of a simple sinusoidal lattice potential. Radio-frequency dressing has previously been performed at length scales from mm to tens of mum, but not at the single-optical-wavelength scale. At this length scale significant coupling between adiabatic potentials leads to nonadiabatic transitions, which we measure as a function of lattice depth and dressing amplitude. We also investigate the dressing by measuring changes in the momentum distribution of the dressed states.     

The inversion procedure for nuclear scattering problems from phase shifts at fixed angular momentum

The inverse scattering problem is solved for fixed angular momentum by using energy-dependent phases and a Povzner-Levitan representation of the wave function. In order to test the proposed method we show the inversion of phase shifts corresponding to repulsive square-well potentials and an optical Woods-Saxon potential. The parameters of the scattering problem are taken the same as in nuclear heavy-ion scattering.     

Rectified momentum transport for a kicked Bose-Einstein condensate

We report the experimental observation of rectified momentum transport for a Bose-Einstein condensate kicked at the Talbot time (quantum resonance) by an optical standing wave. Atoms are initially prepared in a superposition of the 0 and -2hkl momentum states using an optical pi/2 pulse. By changing the relative phase of the superposed states, a momentum current in either direction along the standing wave may be produced. We offer an interpretation based on matter-wave interference, showing that the observed effect is uniquely quantum.     

Deflections of photoelectron classical trajectories in screened Coulomb potentials of H_2~+

The photoelectron momentum distribution of H+2in circularly polarized laser fields is studied based on classical trajectory calculations. We screen Coulomb potentials at different radii, and trace trajectories of an ensemble of electrons in such screened Coulomb potentials and circularly polarized laser fields. Simulations show that electron trajectories are bent by Coulomb fields, resulting in the laser-intensity-dependent drift of photoelectron momentum distributions in the laser polarization plane. This study intuitively explains how Coulomb potentials modify photoelectron momenta.     

Rapid coherent optical modulation of atomic momenta via pseudoresonances

We show that modulation of an optical field injected into a cavity containing a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate is transformed into a modulation of the population of the atomic momentum states due to pseudoresonances of the resolvent which describes the linearized evolution of the atom-cavity system. This effect is related to the way the atomic momentum states and the cavity optical field are dynamically coupled. The results presented offer new possibilities for rapid modulation of atomic momentum state populations up to 3 orders of magnitude faster than modulation of magnetic trapping potentials.     

Splitting of atomic beams by light for creation of high-resolution spatial structures in optical nanolithography

Diffraction of atomic wave packets from a standing laser wave with a Gaussian profile is studied theoretically and numerically in pursuing the aim of creating high-resolution spatial structures in optical nanolithography. To this end, we propose to use nonadiabatic transitions between two optical potentials which take place when square of the value of detuning off the resonance is approximately equal to the Doppler shift. In this case, atomic wave packets experience splitting at nodes of the standing wave, which allows creating atomic structures on a substrate with a period substantially smaller than the standard nanofabrication limit equal to half the wavelength of light. We propose a scheme of the experiment for the observation of nonadiabatic transitions and splitting of the wave of matter caused by them. A number of computer simulations with parameters corresponding to real atoms have been performed, which exhibit this effect in both momentum and coordinate spaces.     

电子碰撞原子(e,2e)反应的复极化势

研究包括连续通道等非处理通道的复极化势对(e,2e)碰撞过程三重微分截面的影响,即将耦合通道光学势方法得到的复极化势附加到畸变波玻恩近似方法的畸变势中,在靶态的HF近似下,计算了Ar原子和Ne原子在非共面对称几何条件下(e,2e)反应的三重微分截面.对于较高的入射能量,在实验的误差范围内,计算结果与电子动量谱的实验数据符合较好,复极化势的影响很小;对于较低的入射能量,复极化势的作用明显增大. 关键词： 复极化势 (e;2e)反应 三重微分截面 电子动量谱     

计算电子与原子Mg碰撞3^1S→3^1P跃迁散射截面

应用动量空间的耦合通道光学势方法计算了中等入射能量范围的电子与原子Ｍｇ的非弹性散射３１Ｐ的微分散射截面，１０个分立的通道和描述连续态激发的光学势被包括在这个计算中。在１０ｅＶ、２０ｅＶ和４０ｅＶ的计算结果与实验测量符合的非常好并表明包括连续态改进了大角度的微分散射截面。     

Mixtures of fermionic atoms with mass imbalance in optical lattices

We study ground-state properties of ultracold fermionic mixtures with strong mass imbalance in one and two-dimensional optical lattices through large scale numerical simulations of the attractive Falicov-Kimball model in harmonic confining potentials. In the one-dimensional case, we observe a formation of insulating atomic-density-wave domains at low particle fillings and a coexistence of insulating and metallic domains at intermediate and large particle fillings. Moreover, we show how the formation of metallic regions is reflected in the momentum distribution of the light atoms. In two dimensions, we find a rich spectrum of density-wave patterns including the homogeneous distributions, the axial striped distributions, the labyrinthine phases as well as the segregated phases.      

Spin polarization of electrons elastically scattered from europium and bismuth atoms

We present calculations of differential, integrated elastic, total, momentum transfer cross-sections and spin-polarization parameters S, T and U for scattering of electrons from Eu and Bi atoms in the energy range 2.0 to 500.0 eV using semi-relativistic approach. The target-projectile interaction is represented both by real and complex parameter-free optical potentials in the solution of Dirac equation for the scattered electrons. The results for the differential cross-sections and spin-polarization parameters have been compared with the available calculations and experimental results. Received 17 February 2000 and Received in final form 15 June 2000     

Properties of nuclear matter in the Λ00-approximation for local potentials

In the Λ⁰⁰-approximation of the Green's function theory the nuclear matter properties have been calculated for several local potentials. All these potentials contain a hard core repulsion and match the experimentalS-wave phase-shifts. Due to the analytical form of these potentials one can obtain many results analytically. Thus the whole structure of this approximation becomes relatively transparent and can easily be calculated. Therefore this model can be used as an input for more complicated approximations. Furthermore one can also treat the optical potential problem. Te results for nuclear matter are comparable with the results for nonlocal potentials. The momentum distribution deviates more strongly from the independent particle model as in the case of nonlocal potentials.     

Metal-insulator transition revisited for cold atoms in non-Abelian gauge potentials

We discuss the possibility of realizing metal-insulator transitions with ultracold atoms in two-dimensional optical lattices in the presence of artificial gauge potentials. For Abelian gauges, such transitions occur when the magnetic flux penetrating the lattice plaquette is an irrational multiple of the magnetic flux quantum. Here we present the first study of these transitions for non-Abelian U(2) gauge fields. In contrast to the Abelian case, the spectrum and localization transition in the non-Abelian case is strongly influenced by atomic momenta. In addition to determining the localization boundary, the momentum fragments the spectrum. Other key characteristics of the non-Abelian case include the absence of localization for certain states and satellite fringes around the Bragg peaks in the momentum distribution and an interesting possibility that the transition can be tuned by the atomic momenta.     

Proliferation of atomic wave packets at the nodes of a standing light wave

A quantum analysis is presented of the motion and internal state of a two-level atom in a strong standing-wave light field. Coherent evolution of the atomic wave-packet, atomic dipole moment, and population inversion strongly depends on the ratio between the detuning from atom-field resonance and a characteristic atomic frequency. In the basis of dressed states, atomic motion is represented as wave-packet motion in two effective optical potentials. At exact resonance, coherent population trapping is observed when an atom with zero momentum is centered at a standing-wave node. When the detuning is comparable to the characteristic atomic frequency, the atom crossing a node may or may not undergo a transition between the potentials with probabilities that are similar in order of magnitude. In this detuning range, atomic wave packets proliferate at the nodes of the standing wave. This phenomenon is interpreted as a quantum manifestation of chaotic transport of classical atoms observed in earlier studies. For a certain detuning range, there exists an interval of initial momentum values such that the atom simultaneously oscillates in an optical potential well and moves as a ballistic particle. This behavior of a wave packet is a quantum analog of a classical random walk of an atom, when it enters and leaves optical potential wells in a seemingly irregular manner and freely moves both ways in a periodic standing light wave. In a far-detuned field, the transition probability between the potentials is low, and adiabatic wave-packet evolution corresponding to regular classical motion of an atom is observed.     

Pions in nuclear interior — sensitive test by hypernuclear decay

The effect of the pion wave distortion on the pi-mesonic weak decay ofΛ-hyperon in hypernuclei is studied by using two different pion optical potentials, one by Gmitro, Kamalov and Mach, which is given in momentum space, and the other by MSU group, which is in the standard Kisslinger form. The two potentials lead to a striking difference in the pi-mesonic decay, reflecting different behaviors of the pion wavefunctions deep inside the nucleus.     

Radial, sideward and elliptic flow at AGS energies

We study the baryon transverse in-plane (sideward) and elliptic flow from SIS to AGS energies for AuAu collisions in a relativistic dynamical simulation model that includes all baryon resonances up to a mass of 2 GeV as well as string degrees of freedom for the higher mass continuum. There are two factors which dominantly determine the baryon flow at these energies: the momentum dependence of the scalar and vector potentials and the resonance-string degrees of freedom. We fix the explicit momentum dependence of the nucleon-meson couplings of NL3(hard) equation of state (EoS) by the nucleon optical potential up to 1 GeV of kinetic energy. We simultaneously reproduce the sideward flow, the elliptic flow and the radial transverse mass distribution of protons data at AGS energies. In order to study the sensitivity of different mean-field EoS, we use NL2(soft) and NL23(medium) along with NL3(hard) momenta-dependent mean-field EoS. We find that to describe data on both sideward and elliptic flow, NL3 model is better at 2 A·GeV, while NL23 model is at 4–8 A·GeV.     

一种新颖的实现冷原子或冷分子囚禁的可控制光学四阱及其二维光学晶格

原子光学晶格为精确操控中性原子和研究某些基本物理问题提供了一种方法。提出了一种利用单光束照明余弦型振幅光栅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单阱的演化过程,并导出了光学四阱的几何参量、光强分布、强度梯度及其曲率与光学透镜系统参量间的解析关系,获得了四阱间距与光栅空间频率的关系。研究表明通过改变余弦光栅的空间频率即可实现从光学四阱到双阱或单阱的连续双向演化。     

Identity for the Exponential-Type Molecule Potentials and the Supersymmetry Shape Invariance

The identity and the supersymmetry shape invariance for a class of exponential-type molecule potentials are studied by introducing a deformed five-parameter exponential-type potential (DFPEP) and via the multi-parameter deformations. It has been shown that the DFPEP is a shape-invariant potential with a translation of parameters. By making use of the shape invariance approach, the exact energy levels are determined for the bound states with zero angular momentum. A class of molecule potentials and their exact energy spectra for the zero angular momentum states are reduced from the DFPEP and a general energy spectrum formula, respectively. The interrelations for some molecule potentials are also discussed.     

High momentum nucleons in the nucleus

Using Jastrow form for the nuclear wave function, single-particle distributions in the momentum space are extracted for the correlation functions corresponding to the Reid soft core, Hamada-Johnston and Ohmura-Morita-Yamada (OMY) hard core potentials. The correlations functions used for this purpose are the numerical solutions of the Schrödinger type equation for the realistic potentials and analytical form for the OMY potential. It is found that the calculated momentum distributions, with Woods-Saxon basis functions, differ significantly beyond 400 MeV/c. Comparison with the experimental proton momentum distribution from (γ, p) reaction suggests that while the OMY potential results are nearer to the experimental values, the realistic potentials do not introduce the high momentum components to the required extent.