Probing quantum transport by engineering correlations in a speckle potential

We develop a procedure to modify the correlations of a speckle potential. This procedure, that is suitable for spatial light modulator devices, allows one to increase the localization efficiency of the speckle in a narrow energy region whose position can be easily tuned. This peculiar energy-depende...

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Autores principales: Alamir, A., Capuzzi, P., Kashanian, S.V., Vignolo, P.
Formato: JOUR
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_10502947_v89_n2_p_Alamir
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Sumario:We develop a procedure to modify the correlations of a speckle potential. This procedure, that is suitable for spatial light modulator devices, allows one to increase the localization efficiency of the speckle in a narrow energy region whose position can be easily tuned. This peculiar energy-dependent localization behavior is explored by pulling the potential through a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the percentage of dragged atoms as a function of the pulling velocity depends on the potential correlations below a threshold of the disorder strength. Above this threshold, interference effects are no longer clearly observable during the condensate drag. © 2014 American Physical Society.