BOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES IN DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLED OPTICAL LATTICES

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dc.contributor.advisorRolston, Steven Len_US
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Zachary Schutzen_US
dc.contributor.departmentPhysicsen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-02-01T06:34:23Z
dc.date.available2020-02-01T06:34:23Z
dc.date.issued2019en_US
dc.description.abstractUltracold atomic gases are often used as quantum simulators, where the ability to precisely control and modulate the potential landscape allows many model Hamiltonians to be realized. Recently, dynamic control over these potentials has been leveraged to extend the kinds of systems that can be explored. Our lab has constructed an optical lattice generator capable of dynamically altering the spacing, phase, and amplitude of an optical lattice at RF timescales. The rapid timescales allows the construction of a time-averaged disordered potential from individual flashes of optical lattice, producing layered system exhibiting a Griffiths phase. A future experiment where the optical lattice is periodically expanded and contracted is proposed, and a numerical treatment is presented suggesting interesting structure in the tunneling dynamics.en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/jnew-xejt
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/25390
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledPhysicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledQuantum physicsen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAtomic physicsen_US
dc.titleBOSE EINSTEIN CONDENSATES IN DYNAMICALLY CONTROLLED OPTICAL LATTICESen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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