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Spatial Adiabatic Passage of Massive Quantum Particles

arXiv:1708.01100 · doi:10.1038/s41467-019-14165-3

Abstract

By adiabatically manipulating tunneling amplitudes of cold atoms in a periodic potential with a multiple sublattice structure, we are able to coherently transfer atoms from a sublattice to another without populating the intermediate sublattice, which can be regarded as a spatial analogue of stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. A key is the existence of dark eigenstates forming a flat band in a Lieb-type optical lattice. We also successfully observe a matter-wave analogue of Autler-Townes doublet using the same setup. This work shed light on a novel kind of coherent control of cold atoms in optical potentials.

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