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Defect modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice with a localized impurity

By: Valeriy Brazhnyy
From: CFTC
At: Complexo Interdisciplinar, Anfiteatro
[2007-03-28] 11:30

We study defect modes of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice with a localized defect within the framework of the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. It is shown that for a significant range of parameters the defect modes can be accurately described by an expansion over Wannier functions, whose envelope is governed by the coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations with a delta-impurity. The stability of the defect modes is verified by direct numerical simulations of the underlying Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a periodic and defect potentials. We also discuss possibilities of driving defect modes through the lattice and suggest ideas for their experimental generation.