Anisotropic 2D Diffusive Expansion of Ultracold Atoms in a Disordered Potential

作者:Robert de Saint Vincent M; Brantut J P; Allard B; Plisson T; Pezze L; Sanchez Palencia L; Aspect A; Bourdel T*; Bouyer P
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2010, 104(22): 220602.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.220602

摘要

We study the horizontal expansion of vertically confined ultracold atoms in the presence of disorder. Vertical confinement allows us to realize a situation with a few coupled harmonic oscillator quantum states. The disordered potential is created by an optical speckle at an angle of 30 degrees with respect to the horizontal plane, resulting in an effective anisotropy of the correlation lengths of a factor of 2 in that plane. We observe diffusion leading to non-Gaussian density profiles. Diffusion coefficients, extracted from the experimental results, show anisotropy and strong energy dependence, in agreement with numerical calculations.

  • 出版日期2010-6-2