Abstract
We observe the sudden growth of small classes of Bloch waves from atomic Bose-Einstein condensates held in periodically translated optical lattices. The effect is explained by narrowband parametric amplification of Bloch waves from noise, due to phase-matched scattering of atom pairs out of the condensate. Amplification occurs above a well-defined modulation threshold, described by dynamic shaping of single-particle band structure.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 170404 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue number | 17 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 21 2005 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy
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