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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.
@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} }