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Anisotropic 2D diffusive expansion of ultra-cold atoms in a disordered potential

Martin Robert-De-Saint-Vincent 1 Jean-Philippe Brantut 1 Baptiste Allard 1 Thomas Plisson 1 Luca Pezzé 1 Laurent Sanchez-Palencia 1 Alain Aspect 1 Thomas Bourdel 1 Philippe Bouyer 1 
1 laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique / Optique atomique
LCFIO - Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique
Abstract : We study the horizontal expansion of vertically confined ultra-cold atoms in the presence of disorder. Vertical confinement allows us to realize a situation with a few coupled harmonic oscillator quantum states. The disordered potential is created by an optical speckle at an angle of 30{\deg} with respect to the horizontal plane, resulting in an effective anisotropy of the correlation lengths of a factor of 2 in that plane. We observe diffusion leading to non-Gaussian density profiles. Diffusion coefficients, extracted from the experimental results, show anisotropy and strong energy dependence, in agreement with numerical calculations.
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Martin Robert-De-Saint-Vincent, Jean-Philippe Brantut, Baptiste Allard, Thomas Plisson, Luca Pezzé, et al.. Anisotropic 2D diffusive expansion of ultra-cold atoms in a disordered potential. Physical Review Letters, American Physical Society, 2010, 104 (22), pp.220602. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.220602⟩. ⟨hal-00470303⟩

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