中国物理B ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (1): 10307-010307.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab5efc

• SPECIAL TOPIC—Recent advances in thermoelectric materials and devices • 上一篇    下一篇

Cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in optical lattices with additional magnetic field and harmonic trap potential

Ai-Xia Zhang(张爱霞), Ying Zhang(张莹), Yan-Fang Jiang(姜艳芳), Zi-Fa Yu(鱼自发), Li-Xia Cai(蔡丽霞), Ju-Kui Xue(薛具奎)   

  1. College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-08-23 修回日期:2019-11-28 出版日期:2020-01-05 发布日期:2020-01-05
  • 通讯作者: Ai-Xia Zhang, Ju-Kui Xue E-mail:zhangax@nwnu.edu.cn;xuejk@nwnu.edu.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11764039, 11847304, 11865014, 11475027, 11305132, and 11274255), the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (Grant No. 17JR5RA076), and the Scientific Research Project of Gansu Higher Education Department, China (Grant No. 2016A-005).

Cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in optical lattices with additional magnetic field and harmonic trap potential

Ai-Xia Zhang(张爱霞), Ying Zhang(张莹), Yan-Fang Jiang(姜艳芳), Zi-Fa Yu(鱼自发), Li-Xia Cai(蔡丽霞), Ju-Kui Xue(薛具奎)   

  1. College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou 730070, China
  • Received:2019-08-23 Revised:2019-11-28 Online:2020-01-05 Published:2020-01-05
  • Contact: Ai-Xia Zhang, Ju-Kui Xue E-mail:zhangax@nwnu.edu.cn;xuejk@nwnu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11764039, 11847304, 11865014, 11475027, 11305132, and 11274255), the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Province, China (Grant No. 17JR5RA076), and the Scientific Research Project of Gansu Higher Education Department, China (Grant No. 2016A-005).

摘要: We analytically and numerically discuss the stability and dynamics of neutral atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice subjected to an additional harmonic trap potential and artificial magnetic field. The harmonic trap potential plays a key role in modifying the equilibrium state properties of the system and stabilizing the cyclotron orbits of the condensate. Meanwhile, the presence of the harmonic trap potential and lattice potential results in rich cyclotron dynamics of the condensate. The coupling effects of lattice potential, artificial magnetic field, and harmonic trap potential lead to single periodic, multi-periodic or quasi-periodic cyclotron orbits of the condensate. So we can control the cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in optical lattice by manipulating the strength of harmonic confinement, artificial magnetic field, and initial conditions. Our results provide a direct theoretical evidence for the cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in optical lattices exposed to the artificial gauge magnetic field and harmonic trap potential.

关键词: Bose-Einstein condensate, artificial magnetic field, optical lattice

Abstract: We analytically and numerically discuss the stability and dynamics of neutral atoms in a two-dimensional optical lattice subjected to an additional harmonic trap potential and artificial magnetic field. The harmonic trap potential plays a key role in modifying the equilibrium state properties of the system and stabilizing the cyclotron orbits of the condensate. Meanwhile, the presence of the harmonic trap potential and lattice potential results in rich cyclotron dynamics of the condensate. The coupling effects of lattice potential, artificial magnetic field, and harmonic trap potential lead to single periodic, multi-periodic or quasi-periodic cyclotron orbits of the condensate. So we can control the cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in optical lattice by manipulating the strength of harmonic confinement, artificial magnetic field, and initial conditions. Our results provide a direct theoretical evidence for the cyclotron dynamics of neutral atoms in optical lattices exposed to the artificial gauge magnetic field and harmonic trap potential.

Key words: Bose-Einstein condensate, artificial magnetic field, optical lattice

中图分类号:  (Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations)

  • 03.75.Lm
03.75.Mn (Multicomponent condensates; spinor condensates) 05.45.Yv (Solitons)