Self-localization of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices via boundary dissipation

Livi, Roberto and Franzosi, Roberto and Oppo, Gian-Luca (2006) Self-localization of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices via boundary dissipation. Physical Review Letters, 97 (6). 060401. ISSN 1079-7114 (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.060401)

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Abstract

We introduce a technique to obtain localization of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices via boundary dissipations. Stationary and traveling localized states are generated by removing atoms at the optical lattice ends. Clear regimes of stretched-exponential decay for the number of atoms trapped in the lattice are identified. The phenomenon is universal and can also be observed in arrays of optical waveguides with mirrors at the system boundaries.