{
  "id": "1304.6278",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2013-04-23T13:13:15.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-06-27T08:09:51.000Z",
  "title": "Lifetimes of atoms trapped in an optical lattice in proximity of a surface",
  "authors": [
    "Sophie Pelisson",
    "Riccardo Messina",
    "Marie-Christine Angonin",
    "Peter Wolf"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 8 figures",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. A 88 013411 (2013)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.88.013411",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.quant-gas",
    "physics.atom-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the lifetime of an atom trapped in an optical vertical lattice in proximity of a massive surface using a complex scaling approach. We analyze how the presence of the surface modifies the known lifetimes of Wannier-Stark states associated to Landau-Zener tunnelling. We also investigate how the existence of a hypothetical short-distance deviation from Newton's gravitational law could affect these lifetimes. Our study is relevant in order to discuss the feasibility of any atomic- interferometry experiment performed near a surface. Finally, the difficulties encountered in applying the complex-scaling approach to the atom-surface Casimir-Polder interaction are addressed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2013-06-27T08:09:51.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "37.10.Jk",
      "34.35.+a",
      "37.25.+k",
      "42.50.Ct"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "optical lattice",
      "newtons gravitational law",
      "atom-surface casimir-polder interaction",
      "hypothetical short-distance deviation"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review A",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Jul",
      "volume": 88,
      "number": 1,
      "pages": "013411"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvA..88a3411P"
    }
  }
}