Theoretical Physics Colloquium

Dynamics of bosonic cold atoms in optical lattices

by Prof. Krishnendu Sengupta (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata)

Tuesday, July 3, 2012 from to (Asia/Kolkata)
at Colaba Campus ( AG69 )
Description
In this talk, we discuss some theoretical predictions concerning
dynamics of ultracold bosons in an optical lattice and the
corresponding experimental results. We focus on two such systems,
namely, ultracold bosons near the superfluid-insulator critical point
and bosons in the Mott phase in the presence of effective electric
field. We show that a) the former system displays dynamics induced
freezing when driven periodically at specific frequencies and b) the
latter system can be mapped onto a dipole model with an Ising like
transition at a critical field leading to Kibble-Zureck scaling laws
for dipole density when driven linearly through the transition,
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