5 years ago

Kapitza stabilization of a repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate in an oscillating optical lattice.

D. L. Shepelyansky, B. Georgeot, J. Martin, D. Guéry-Odelin

We show that the Kapitza stabilization can occur in the context of nonlinear quantum fields. Through this phenomenon, an amplitude-modulated lattice can stabilize a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive interactions and prevent the spreading for long times. We present a classical and quantum analysis in the framework of Gross-Pitaevskii equation, specifying the parameter region where stabilization occurs. Effects of nonlinearity lead to a significant increase of the stability domain compared with the classical case. Our proposal can be experimentally implemented with current cold atom settings.

Publisher URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07792

DOI: arXiv:1709.07792v2

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