Excitation and damping of collective modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-dimensional lattice
arXiv:cond-mat/0208162 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.67.031603
Abstract
The mode structure of a Bose-Einstein condensate non-adiabatically loaded into a one-dimensional optical lattice is studied by analyzing the visibility of the interference pattern as well as the radial profile of the condensate after a time-of-flight. A simple model is proposed that predicts the short-time decrease of the visibility as a function of the condensate parameters. In the radial direction, heavily damped oscillations are observed, as well as an increase in the condensate temperature. These findings are interpreted as a re-thermalization due to dissipation of the initial condensate excitations into high-lying modes.
5 pages; submitted to PRA
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