Ultracold atoms in optical lattices induced by photonic crystals

TL;DR

This paper introduces a novel method for creating optical lattices for ultracold atoms using photonic crystals, enabling complex potential geometries for advanced quantum simulations.

Contribution

It presents a new approach to generate optical lattices embedded in photonic crystals, allowing for customizable and intricate potential landscapes for ultracold atoms.

Findings

Extended modes in photonic crystals can produce various field intensity distributions.

The method allows for manufacturing complex and defect-engineered lattice geometries.

Potential applications include advanced quantum simulation and control of ultracold atoms.

Abstract

We propose a way of generating optical lattices embedded in photonic crystals. By setting up extended modes in photonic crystals, ultracold atoms can be mounted in different types of field intensity distributions. This novel way of constructing optical lattices can be used to produce more elaborate periodic potentials by manufacturing appropriate geometries of photonic crystals. We exemplify this with a square lattice and comment on the possibility of using geometries with defects.