Emergence of superfluid transport in a dynamical system of ultracold atoms
arXiv:cond-mat/0412549 · doi:10.1140/epjd/e2006-00226-8
Abstract
The dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied theoretically in a combined periodic plus harmonic external potential. Different dynamical regimes of stable and unstable collective dipole and Bloch oscillations are analysed in terms of a quantum mechanical pendulum model. Nonlinear interactions are shown to counteract quantum-mechanical dephasing and lead to phase-coherent, superfluid transport.
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