Spatial correlation diagnostics for atoms in optical lattices

Author

Grondalski, J. ; Deutsch, I.H. ; Alsing, P.

Author_Institution

High Performance Comput. Center, New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

23-28 May 1992

Firstpage

242

Abstract

Summary form only given. Atom-atom interactions play an important role in the dynamics of cold atoms trapped in optical lattices, and may be crucial to the formation of small scale structure within the lattice. Spatial distributions of atoms trapped in optical lattices are normally probed by absorption or fluorescence spectroscopy. We investigate the possibility of deducing spatial information from the Hanbury-Brown Twiss stellar-interferometric techniques of coincidence counts. This is analogous to the time-delayed coincidence counting employed in analyzing degenerate Bose and Fermi gases.

Keywords

atom-atom collisions; laser cooling; light interferometry; optical chaos; radiation pressure; Hanbury-Brown Twiss stellar-interferometric technique; atom-atom interactions; coincidence counts; cold atom dynamics; cold atoms; conditional statistics; one-dimensional lattice; small scale structure; spatial correlation diagnostics; trapped in optical lattices; Atom optics; Atomic measurements; Character generation; Charge carrier processes; Detectors; Lattices; Optical pulse generation; Probability; Probes; Statistical distributions;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1999. QELS '99. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the

Conference_Location

Baltimore, MD, USA

Print_ISBN

1-55752-576-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/QELS.1999.807617

Filename

807617