Interaction dependent heating and atom loss in a periodically driven optical lattice


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Article
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Authors
Reitter, Martin 
Näger, Jakob 
Wintersperger, Karen 
Sträter, Christoph 
Bloch, Immanuel 
Abstract

Periodic driving of optical lattices has enabled the creation of novel band structures not realizable in static lattice systems, such as topological bands for neutral particles. However, especially driven systems of interacting bosonic particles often suffer from strong heating. We have systematically studied heating in an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a driven one-dimensional optical lattice. We find interaction dependent heating rates that depend on both the scattering length and the driving strength and identify the underlying resonant intra- and interband scattering processes. By comparing the experimental data and theory, we find that, for driving frequencies well above the trap depth, the heating rate is dramatically reduced by the fact that resonantly scattered atoms leave the trap before dissipating their energy into the system. This mechanism of Floquet evaporative cooling offers a powerful strategy to minimize heating in Floquet engineered quantum gases.

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Keywords
cond-mat.quant-gas, cond-mat.quant-gas, quant-ph
Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
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Journal ISSN
0031-9007
1079-7114
Volume Title
119
Publisher
American Physical Society
Sponsorship
This work was financially supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (FOR2414), the European Commission (UQUAM, AQuS), and the Nanosystems Initiative Munich.