Atom-number filter in an optical lattice

Georgios M Nikolopoulos, David Petrosyan
2010 Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics  
We present an efficient procedure to filter out from an optical lattice, having inhomogeneous site occupation number, only preselected number of bosonic atoms per site and place them into another internal atomic state, creating thereby a lattice with desired site occupation number.
doi:10.1088/0953-4075/43/13/131001 fatcat:5ii2ti5jb5hyhjbqhqkjsul5sy