Abstract

Microwave spectroscopy was used to probe the superfluid–Mott insulator transition of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a three-dimensional optical lattice. By using density-dependent transition frequency shifts, we were able to spectroscopically distinguish sites with different occupation numbers and to directly image sites with occupation numbers from one to five, revealing the shell structure of the Mott insulator phase. We used this spectroscopy to determine the onsite interaction and lifetime for individual shells.

Publication Details
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
2006
Volume
313
Number of Pages
649-652
DOI
10.1126/science.1130365
URL
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1130365
Journal
Science
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