Review Article

Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of the Bose-Hubbard Model

Figure 16

Ratio of coherent atoms as a function of time after a quench from the superfluid phase to the Mott insulating phase [183]. The initial lattice depth was and the final lattice depth . The quench from to was made in 50  s. Adapted with permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nature, M. Greiner, O. Mandel, T. Esslinger, T. W. Hänsch, and I. Bloch, Nature 419, 51 (2002), copyright 2002.
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