Optics and Sensing Laboratory Article 2022

Bichromatic state-dependent disordered potential for Anderson localization of ultracold atoms

The ability to load ultracold atoms at a well-defined energy in a disordered potential is a crucial tool to study quantum transport, and in particular Anderson localization. In this paper, we present a new method for achieving that goal by rf transfer of atoms in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate from a disorder-insensitive state to a disorder-sensitive state. It is based on a bichromatic laser speckle pattern, produced by two lasers whose frequencies are chosen so that their light-shifts cancel each other in the first state and add up in the second state. Moreover, the spontaneous scattering rate in the disorder-sensitive state is low enough to allow for long observation times of quantum transport in that state. We theoretically and experimentally study the characteristics of the resulting potential.

Author(s): Baptiste Lecoutre and Yukun Guo and Xudong Yu and M. Niranjan and Musawwadah Mukhtar and Valentin Volchkov and Alain Aspect and Vincent Josse
Journal: European Physical Journal D
Volume: 76
Pages: 218
Year: 2022
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/s10053-022-00549-6
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BibTex

@article{bichromdisorder,
  title = {Bichromatic state-dependent disordered potential for Anderson localization of ultracold atoms},
  journal = {European Physical Journal D},
  abstract = {The ability to load ultracold atoms at a well-defined energy in a disordered potential is a crucial tool to study quantum transport, and in particular Anderson localization. In this paper, we present a new method for achieving that goal by rf transfer of atoms in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate from a disorder-insensitive state to a disorder-sensitive state. It is based on a bichromatic laser speckle pattern, produced by two lasers whose frequencies are chosen so that their light-shifts cancel each other in the first state and add up in the second state. Moreover, the spontaneous scattering rate in the disorder-sensitive state is low enough to allow for long observation times of quantum transport in that state. We theoretically and experimentally study the characteristics of the resulting potential.},
  volume = {76},
  pages = {218},
  year = {2022},
  slug = {bichromdisorder},
  author = {Lecoutre, Baptiste and Guo, Yukun and Yu, Xudong and Niranjan, M. and Mukhtar, Musawwadah and Volchkov, Valentin and Aspect, Alain and Josse, Vincent}
}