Enhancement of On-Site Interactions of Tunnelling Ultracold Atoms in Optical Potentials using Radio-Frequency Dressing

Abstract

We show how it is possible to more than double the on-site interaction energy of neutral atoms in optical potentials by the technique of radio-frequency (rf) dressing, while maintaining interwell dynamics. We calculate Bose-Hubbard parameters for rf dressed optical lattices and arrays of rf dressed dipole traps. We show that decreasing the distance between wells, by the interpolation of wells confining different m_F states, increases the interaction energy more than decreasing the height of the classically forbidden region between existing wells. The schemes we propose have negligible Landau-Zener losses caused by atomic motion; this was a dominant effect in the first experimental demonstration of the modification of an optical potential by radio-frequency dressing.

5 pages, 2 figures, 6 subfigures

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• Radio-frequency dressed state potentials for neutral atoms
• Species-specific optical lattices
• Ultracold atoms confined in rf-induced two-dimensional trapping potentials
• State-dependent, addressable subwavelength lattices with cold atoms
• Atoms in a radiofrequency-dressed optical lattice

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