Loading Bose condensed atoms into the ground state of an optical lattice

P. S. Julienne, Y. B. Band, C. J. Williams +1

We optimize the turning on of a one-dimensional optical potential, V_L(x,t) = S(t) V_0 cos^2(kx) to obtain the optimal turn-on function S(t) so as to load a Bose-Einstein condensat…