Topologically Induced Avoided Band Crossing in an Optical Checkerboard Lattice

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Erscheinungsjahr:
2012
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Schlagworte:
  • Lattices
  • Gases
  • Harmonic trap
  • Atoms
  • Bose-Einstein Condensates
  • Lattices
  • Gases
  • Harmonic trap
  • Atoms
  • Bose-Einstein Condensates
Beschreibung:
  • We report on the condensation of bosons in the 4th band of an optical chequerboard lattice providing a topologically induced avoided band crossing involving the second, third, and fourth bands. When the condensate is slowly tuned through the avoided crossing, accelerated band relaxation arises and the zero momentum approximately C4-invariant condensate wave function acquires finite momentum order and reduced C2 symmetry. For faster tuning Landau-Zener oscillations between different superfluid orders arise, which are used to characterize the avoided crossing.
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Forschungsinformationssystem der UHH

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