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Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering (2005)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Griffin, P., Weatherill, K., Macleod, S., Potvliege, R., & Adams, C. (2005, June). Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering. Presented at International Conference of Laser Spectroscopy, Aviemore

We report on a method of light–shift engineering where an additional laser is used to tune the energy of an excited atomic state. We show that the technique can be used to enhance the loading of a deep optical lattice or selectively load specific sit... Read More about Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering.

Emergence and decay of turbulence in stirred atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (2005)
Journal Article
Parker, N., & Adams, C. (2005). Emergence and decay of turbulence in stirred atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review Letters, 95(14), https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.95.145301

We show that a ``weak'' elliptical deformation of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate rotating at close to the quadrupole instability frequency leads to turbulence with a Kolmogorov energy spectrum. The turbulent state is produced by energy transfer t... Read More about Emergence and decay of turbulence in stirred atomic Bose-Einstein condensates.

Fast switching of alkali atom dispensers using laser induced heating (2005)
Journal Article
Griffin, P., Weatherill, K., & Adams, C. (2005). Fast switching of alkali atom dispensers using laser induced heating. Review of Scientific Instruments, 76(9), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2038167

We show that by using an intense laser source to locally heat an alkali atom dispenser, one can generate a high flux of atoms followed by fast recovery (<100 ms) of the background pressure when the laser is extinguished. For repeated heating pulses a...