Optical Lattice Experiments with Lithium-7

ORAL

Abstract

The light mass of bosonic lithium makes it a potentially lucrative platform for exploring superexchange-driven physics in an optical lattice. The light mass of bosonic lithium makes it a potentially lucrative platform for exploring superexchange-driven physics in an optical lattice. We report on the observation of the superfluid-to-Mott insulator transition in our system and the restoration of coherence; the technical challenges related to the high recoil energy of lithium; and our first investigations using the system.

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Authors

  • Ivana Dimitrova

    MIT

  • William Lunden

    MIT

  • Niklas Jepsen

    MIT

  • Jesse Amato-Grill

    MIT

  • Yichao Yu

    MIT

  • Wolfgang Ketterle

    MIT, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA, Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology