Tuesday | April 25, 2006 | 4:00 p.m. | Harvard-Jefferson 356

Markus Oberthaler    (Universitaet Heidelberg)

Meanfield dynamics and finite temperature effects in periodic and double
well potentials

The Dynamics of interacting matter waves in periodic and double well
potential is very reach. In the presentation I will focus on our
experimental results on localization phenomena such as Gap solitons and
self trapping due to repulsive atom-atom interaction. The effect of
finite temperature in double well potentials will be discussed in
detail. The application of a bosonic Josephson junction for ultra-low
temperature thermometery will be presented.