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Intrinsic Photoconductivity of Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices

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arxiv 1208.4020 v2 pith:JNT66GBE submitted 2012-08-20 cond-mat.quant-gas

Intrinsic Photoconductivity of Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices

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keywords bandopticalultracoldalternatinganalogatomsbehaviorcollapse
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We report on the experimental observation of an analog to a persistent alternating photocurrent in an ultracold gas of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice. The dynamics is induced and sustained by an external harmonic confinement. While particles in the excited band exhibit long-lived oscillations with a momentum dependent frequency a strikingly different behavior is observed for holes in the lowest band. An initial fast collapse is followed by subsequent periodic revivals. Both observations are fully explained by mapping the system onto a nonlinear pendulum.

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