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OPTICS EXPRESS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 4-10Publisher
OPTICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.000004
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By accelerating a Bose-Einstein condensate in a controlled way across the edge of the Brillouin zone of a 1D optical lattice, we investigate the stability of the condensate in the vicinity of the zone edge. Through an analysis of the visibility of the interference pattern after a time-of-flight and the widths of the interference peaks, we characterize the onset of instability as the acceleration of the lattice is decreased. We briefly discuss the significance of our results with respect to recent theoretical work. (C) 2004 Optical Society of America.
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