Atomtronics: Ultracold-atom analogs of electronic devices

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B. T. Seaman, M. Krämer, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland
JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA

Received 23 June 2006; published 20 February 2007

Atomtronicsfocuses on atom analogs of electronic materials, devices, and circuits.A strongly interacting ultracold Bose gas in a lattice potentialis analogous to electrons in solid-state crystalline media. As aconsequence of the gapped many-body energy spectrum, cold atoms ina lattice exhibit insulatorlike or conductorlike properties. P-type and N-typematerial analogs are created by introducing impurity sites into thelattice. Current through an atomtronic wire is generated by connectingthe wire to an atomtronic battery which maintains the twocontacts at different chemical potentials. The design of an atomtronicdiode with a strongly asymmetric current-voltage curve exploits the existenceof superfluid and insulating regimes in the phase diagram. Theatom analog of a bipolar junction transistor exhibits large negativegain. Our results provide the building blocks for more advancedatomtronic devices and circuits such as amplifiers, oscillators, and fundamentallogic gates.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.023615
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.75.023615
PACS:	03.75.Kk; 05.30.Jp; 03.75.Lm; 73.43.Nq 03.75.Kk Dynamic properties of Bose-Einstein condensates; collective and hydrodynamic excitations, superfluid flow 05.30.Jp Boson systems (quantum statistical mechanics) 03.75.Lm Josephson effect, tunneling, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations 73.43.Nq Quantum phase transitions (quantum Hall effect) YEAR: 2007
KEYWORDS:	molecular electronics, bipolar transistors, amplifiers, oscillators, logic gates

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