Single-atom-resolved probing of lattice gases in momentum space
arXiv:1710.08392 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.97.061609
Abstract
Measuring the full distribution of individual particles is of fundamental importance to characterize many-body quantum systems through correlation functions at any order. Here we demonstrate the possibility to reconstruct the momentum-space distribution of three-dimensional interacting lattice gases atom-by-atom. This is achieved by detecting individual metastable Helium atoms in the far-field regime of expansion, when released from an optical lattice. We benchmark our technique with Quantum Monte-Carlo calculations, demonstrating the ability to resolve momentum distributions of superfluids occupying lattice sites. It permits a direct measure of the condensed fraction across phase transitions, as we illustrate on the superfluid-to-normal transition. Our single-atom-resolved approach opens a new route to investigate interacting lattice gases through momentum correlations.
arXiv comment7 pages, 5 figures
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