Abstract

We experimentally study the dynamics of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate of cesium atoms in a 1D optical lattice with a periodic driving force. After a sudden start of the driving we observe the formation of stable wave packets at the center of the fi rst Brillouin zone (BZ) in momentum space, and we interpret these as Floquet solitons in periodically driven systems. The wave packets become unstable when we add a trapping potential along the lattice direction leading to a redistribution of atoms within the BZ.

The concept of a negative effective mass and the resulting changes to the interaction strength and effective trapping potential are used to explain the stability and the time evolution of the wave packets. We expect that similar states of matter waves exist for discrete breathers and other types of lattice solitons in periodically driven systems. Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 243603 (2021).

We further demonstrated non-destructive readout using state-selective imaging on the stretched state transition to enable post-selection for loss and avoiding the requirement to reload the arrays after every sequence.

For more details see our publication arXiv:2301.10510 (2023)."

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