Resonant tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices

Zenesini, Alessandro and Sias, Carlo and Lignier, Hans and Singh, Yeshpal and Ciampini, Donatella and Morsch, Oliver and Mannella, Riccardo and Arimondo, Ennio and Tomadin, Andrea and Wimberger, Sandro (2008) Resonant tunneling of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices. New Journal of Physics, 10: 053038. ISSN 1367-2630

Abstract

In this paper, we present the theoretical as well as experimental results on resonantly enhanced tunneling of Bose–Einstein condensates in optical lattices both in the linear case and for small nonlinearities. Our results demonstrate the usefulness of condensates in optical lattices for simulating Hamiltonians originally used for describing solid-state phenomena.