Title :

Quantum motor: directed wavepacket motion in an optical lattice

Author(s) :

Thommen, Quentin [Auteur]
Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire [Villeneuve d'Ascq] [IRI]
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 [PhLAM]
Garreau, Jean-Claude [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 [PhLAM]
Zehnlé, Véronique [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523 [PhLAM]

Journal title :

Physical Review A : Atomic, molecular, and optical physics [1990-2015]

Pages :

043403

Publisher :

American Physical Society

Publication date :

2011-10-01

ISSN :

1050-2947

HAL domain(s) :

Physique [physics]/Physique Quantique [quant-ph]
Physique [physics]/Matière Condensée [cond-mat]/Gaz Quantiques [cond-mat.quant-gas]

English abstract : [en]

We propose a method for arbitrary manipulations of a quantum wavepacket in an optical lattice by a suitable modulation of the lattice amplitude. A theoretical model allows to determine the modulation corresponding to a ...
Show more >We propose a method for arbitrary manipulations of a quantum wavepacket in an optical lattice by a suitable modulation of the lattice amplitude. A theoretical model allows to determine the modulation corresponding to a given wavepacket motion, so that arbitrary atomic trajectories can be generated. The method is immediately usable in state of the art experiments.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules (PhLAM) - UMR 8523

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