Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 110403 (2003) [4 pages]Defect-Suppressed Atomic Crystals in an Optical LatticeReceived 1 April 2003; published 10 September 2003 We present a coherent filtering scheme which dramatically reduces the site occupation number defects for atoms in an optical lattice by transferring a chosen number of atoms to a different internal state via adiabatic passage. With the addition of superlattices it is possible to engineer states with a specific number of atoms per site (atomic crystals), which are required for quantum computation and the realization of models from condensed matter physics, including doping and spatial patterns. The same techniques can be used to measure two-body spatial correlation functions. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.110403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.110403
PACS:
03.75.Lm, 03.67.Lx, 03.75.Ss, 42.50.–p
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