TY - JOUR T1 - Self-heterodyne detection of the \it in-situ phase of an atomic-SQUID JF - Physical Review A Y1 - 2015 A1 - Ranchu Mathew A1 - Avinash Kumar A1 - Stephen Eckel A1 - Fred Jendrzejewski A1 - Gretchen K. Campbell A1 - Mark Edwards A1 - Eite Tiesinga AB - We present theoretical and experimental analysis of an interferometric measurement of the {\it in-situ} phase drop across and current flow through a rotating barrier in a toroidal Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). This experiment is the atomic analog of the rf-superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID). The phase drop is extracted from a spiral-shaped density profile created by the spatial interference of the expanding toroidal BEC and a reference BEC after release from all trapping potentials. We characterize the interferometer when it contains a single particle, which is initially in a coherent superposition of a torus and reference state, as well as when it contains a many-body state in the mean-field approximation. The single-particle picture is sufficient to explain the origin of the spirals, to relate the phase-drop across the barrier to the geometry of a spiral, and to bound the expansion times for which the {\it in-situ} phase can be accurately determined. Mean-field estimates and numerical simulations show that the inter-atomic interactions shorten the expansion time scales compared to the single-particle case. Finally, we compare the mean-field simulations with our experimental data and confirm that the interferometer indeed accurately measures the {\it in-situ} phase drop. VL - 92 U4 - 033602 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.09149v2 CP - 3 J1 - Phys. Rev. A U5 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.92.033602 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Tunneling phase gate for neutral atoms in a double-well lattice JF - Physical Review A Y1 - 2008 A1 - Frederick W. Strauch A1 - Mark Edwards A1 - Eite Tiesinga A1 - Carl J. Williams A1 - Charles W. Clark AB - We propose a new two--qubit phase gate for ultra--cold atoms confined in an experimentally realized tilted double--well optical lattice [Sebby--Strabley et al., Phys. Rev. A {\bf 73} 033605 (2006)]. Such a lattice is capable of confining pairs of atoms in a two--dimensional array of double--well potentials where control can be exercised over the barrier height and the energy difference of the minima of the two wells (known as the ``tilt''). The four lowest single--particle motional states consist of two pairs of motional states in which each pair is localized on one side of the central barrier, allowing for two atoms confined in such a lattice to be spatially separated qubits. We present a time--dependent scheme to manipulate the tilt to induce tunneling oscillations which produce a collisional phase gate. Numerical simulations demonstrate that this gate can be performed with high fidelity. VL - 77 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/0712.1856v1 CP - 5 J1 - Phys. Rev. A U5 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.050304 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Bogoliubov approach to superfluidity of atoms in an optical lattice JF - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Y1 - 2003 A1 - Ana Maria Rey A1 - Keith Burnett A1 - Robert Roth A1 - Mark Edwards A1 - Carl J. Williams A1 - Charles W. Clark AB - We use the Bogoliubov theory of atoms in an optical lattice to study the approach to the Mott-insulator transition. We derive an explicit expression for the superfluid density based on the rigidity of the system under phase variations. This enables us to explore the connection between the quantum depletion of the condensate and the quasi-momentum distribution on the one hand and the superfluid fraction on the other. The approach to the insulator phase may be characterized through the filling of the band by quantum depletion, which should be directly observable via the matter wave interference patterns. We complement these findings by self-consistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov-Popov calculations for one-dimensional lattices including the effects of a parabolic trapping potential. VL - 36 U4 - 825 - 841 UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0210550v2 CP - 5 J1 - J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. U5 - 10.1088/0953-4075/36/5/304 ER -