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Role of interactions in time-of-flight expansion of atomic clouds from optical lattices
Joern N. Kupferschmidt, Erich J. Mueller
Published 2010-06-10, updated 2010-08-02Version 2
We calculate the effect of interactions on the expansion of ultracold atoms from a single site of an optical lattice. We use these results to predict how interactions influence the interference pattern observed in a time of flight experiment. We find that for typical interaction strengths their influence is negligible, yet that they reduce visibility near a scattering resonance.
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures
Journal: Phys. Rev. A 82, 023618 (2010)
Categories: cond-mat.quant-gas
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