| dc.contributor.advisor | Wolfgang Ketterle and David Pritchard. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Hucul, David (David Alexander) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-09-01T16:23:02Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-09-01T16:23:02Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2009 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58068 | |
| dc.description | Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2009. | en_US |
| dc.description | Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | Includes bibliographical references (p. 65-68). | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The methods of atomic physics offer a unique opportunity to study strongly correlated many body systems. It is possible to confine BECs in periodic optical lattices to form an analog of a solid state system. The study of these cold atoms in optical lattice systems may prove a very useful testing ground for novel states of matter, testing fundamental condensed matter theory, and may help illuminate a possible connection between the mechanism behind high temperature superconductivity and quantum magnetism. This thesis will focus on trapping cold bosonic atoms in spin dependent optical lattices to engineer a system that behaves according to the Hubbard model. By loading the atoms into a state dependent lattice, it may be possible to explore the full phase space of the Heisenberg model and see magnetic super exchange-driven magnetic ordering in a variety of lattice geometries. The aim of this thesis is primarily to explore some of the tools that may be needed accomplish this task. | en_US |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | by David Hucul. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 68 p. | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | en_US |
| dc.rights | M.I.T. theses are protected by
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| dc.rights.uri | http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 | en_US |
| dc.subject | Physics. | en_US |
| dc.title | Magnetic super-exchange with ultra cold atoms in spin dependent optical lattices | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
| dc.description.degree | S.M. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.department | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics | |
| dc.identifier.oclc | 625177067 | en_US |
