We report on the experimental characterization of energetic and dynamical instability, two mechanisms responsible for the breakdown of Bloch waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with a one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice. A clear separation of these two regimes is obtained by performing measurements at different temperatures of the atomic sample. The time scales of the two processes have been determined by measuring the losses induced in the condensate. A simple phenomenological model is introduced for energetic instability while a full comparison is made between the experiment and the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii theory that accounts for dynamical instability.

Unstable regimes for a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice / L. DE SARLO; L. FALLANI; J. LYE; M. MODUGNO; R. SAERS; C. FORT; M. INGUSCIO. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW A. - ISSN 1050-2947. - STAMPA. - 72:(2005), pp. 013603-013603. [10.1103/PhysRevA.72.013603]

Unstable regimes for a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice

FALLANI, LEONARDO;MODUGNO, MICHELE;FORT, CHIARA;INGUSCIO, MASSIMO
2005

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We report on the experimental characterization of energetic and dynamical instability, two mechanisms responsible for the breakdown of Bloch waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with a one-dimensional (1D) optical lattice. A clear separation of these two regimes is obtained by performing measurements at different temperatures of the atomic sample. The time scales of the two processes have been determined by measuring the losses induced in the condensate. A simple phenomenological model is introduced for energetic instability while a full comparison is made between the experiment and the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii theory that accounts for dynamical instability.
2005
72
013603
013603
L. DE SARLO; L. FALLANI; J. LYE; M. MODUGNO; R. SAERS; C. FORT; M. INGUSCIO
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