Title :
Spatial correlation diagnostics for atoms in optical lattices
Author :
Grondalski, J. ; Deutsch, I.H. ; Alsing, P.
Author_Institution :
High Performance Comput. Center, New Mexico Univ., Albuquerque, NM, USA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. Atom-atom interactions play an important role in the dynamics of cold atoms trapped in optical lattices, and may be crucial to the formation of small scale structure within the lattice. Spatial distributions of atoms trapped in optical lattices are normally probed by absorption or fluorescence spectroscopy. We investigate the possibility of deducing spatial information from the Hanbury-Brown Twiss stellar-interferometric techniques of coincidence counts. This is analogous to the time-delayed coincidence counting employed in analyzing degenerate Bose and Fermi gases.
Keywords :
atom-atom collisions; laser cooling; light interferometry; optical chaos; radiation pressure; Hanbury-Brown Twiss stellar-interferometric technique; atom-atom interactions; coincidence counts; cold atom dynamics; cold atoms; conditional statistics; one-dimensional lattice; small scale structure; spatial correlation diagnostics; trapped in optical lattices; Atom optics; Atomic measurements; Character generation; Charge carrier processes; Detectors; Lattices; Optical pulse generation; Probability; Probes; Statistical distributions;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, 1999. QELS '99. Technical Digest. Summaries of Papers Presented at the
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD, USA
Print_ISBN :
1-55752-576-X
DOI :
10.1109/QELS.1999.807617
