Cooling in strongly correlated optical lattices: prospects and challenges

DC McKay, B DeMarco - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical lattices have emerged as ideal simulators for Hubbard models of strongly correlated
materials, such as the high-temperature superconducting cuprates. In optical lattice …

A disordered insulator in an optical lattice

M Pasienski, D McKay, M White, B DeMarco - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
Disorder can profoundly affect the transport properties of a wide range of quantum materials.
At present, significant disagreement exists regarding features of the disordered Bose …

Lattice thermodynamics for ultracold atoms

D McKay, M White, B DeMarco - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and …, 2009 - APS
We measure the temperature of ultracold R 87 b gases transferred into an optical lattice and
compare to noninteracting thermodynamics for a combined lattice-parabolic potential …

Quantum Jumps and Spin Dynamics of Interacting Atoms<? format?> in a Strongly Coupled Atom-Cavity System

M Khudaverdyan, W Alt, T Kampschulte, S Reick… - Physical review …, 2009 - APS
We experimentally investigate the spin dynamics of one and two neutral atoms strongly
coupled to a high finesse optical cavity. We observe quantum jumps between hyperfine …

Extraction and identification of noise patterns for ultracold atoms in an optical lattice

S Cao, P Tang, X Guo, X Chen, W Zhang, X Zhou - Optics Express, 2019 - opg.optica.org
To extract useful information about quantum effects in cold atom experiments, one central
task is to identify the intrinsic fluctuations from extrinsic system noises of various kinds. As a …

Metastable Bose-Einstein condensation in a strongly correlated optical lattice

D McKay, U Ray, S Natu, P Russ, D Ceperley… - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
We experimentally and theoretically study the peak fraction of a Bose-Einstein condensate
loaded into a cubic optical lattice as the lattice potential depth and entropy per particle are …

Finite-temperature theory of superfluid bosons in optical lattices

D Baillie, PB Blakie - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2009 - APS
A practical finite-temperature theory is developed for the superfluid regime of a weakly
interacting Bose gas in an optical lattice with additional harmonic confinement. We derive an …

[LIBRO][B] Quantum simulation in strongly correlated optical lattices

DC McKay - 2012 - search.proquest.com
My work on the 87 Rb apparatus focuses on three main topics: simulating the Bose-Hubbard
(BH) model out of equilibrium, develo** thermometry probes, and develo** impurity …

Effective area and expansion energy of trapped Bose gas in a combined magnetic–optical potential

AS Hassan - Physics Letters A, 2010 - Elsevier
In this Letter a conventional method of statistical physics and quantum mechanics is used to
calculate the effective area and the expansion energy for trapped Bose gas in a combined …

Loss of superfluidity in the Bose–Einstein condensate in an optical lattice with cubic and quintic nonlinearity

P Das, M Vyas, PK Panigrahi - Journal of Physics B: Atomic …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
In a one-dimensional shallow optical lattice, in the presence of both cubic and quintic
nonlinearity, a superfluid density wave is identified in a Bose–Einstein condensate …