Controllable diffusion of cold atoms in a harmonically driven and tilted optical lattice: Decoherence by spontaneous emission
arXiv:cond-mat/0612261 · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/41/25/255001
Abstract
We have studied some transport properties of cold atoms in an accelerated optical lattice in the presence of decohering effects due to spontaneous emission. One new feature added is the effect of an external AC drive. As a result we obtain a tunable diffusion coefficient and it's nonlinear enhancement with increasing drive amplitude. We report an interesting maximum diffusion condition.
16 pages, 7 figures, revised version
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