Simulating cyclotron-Bloch dynamics of a charged particle in a 2D lattice by means of cold atoms in driven quasi-1D optical lattices

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Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2012

Идентификатор DOI: 10.1007/s11467-011-0202-3

Ключевые слова: optical lattice, Bloch dynamics, cyclotron oscillations, cold atoms

Аннотация: Quantum dynamics of a charged particle in a two-dimensional (2D) lattice subject to magnetic and electric fields is a rather complicated interplay between cyclotron oscillations (the case of vanishing electric field) and Bloch oscillations (zero magnetic field), details of which has not yet been completely understood. In the presenПоказать полностьюt work we suggest to study this problem by using cold atoms in optical lattices. We introduce a one-dimensional (1D) model which can be easily realized in laboratory experiments with quasi-1D optical lattices and show that this model captures many features of the cyclotron-Bloch dynamics of the quantum particle in 2D square lattices.

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Издание

Журнал: FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 7, Is. 1

Номера страниц: 3-7

ISSN журнала: 20950462

Место издания: BEIJING

Издатель: HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS

Персоны

  • Kolovsky Andrey R. (Russian Acad Sci, LV Kirensky Phys Inst, Siberian Branch, Krasnoyarsk 660036, Russia; Siberian Fed Univ, Inst Engn Phys, Krasnoyarsk 660041, Russia)