Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in triangular optical lattices

The physics of quantum degenerate cold gases in optical lattices has rapidly grown to an extremely dynamic field over the past few years. In the experimental realizations, however, mainly cubic symmetries (or their two- and one-dimensional projections) are considered. In this paper, an optical lattice with an underlying triangular symmetry in order to investigate strongly correlated ultra-cold atoms in a novel experimental geometry is implemented.