October 10, 2005
Author(s)
K Xu, Y Liu, J R. Abo-Shaeer, T Mukaiyama, J K. Chin, D E. Miller, W Ketterle, Kevin Jones, Eite Tiesinga
The phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator has been observed in a 23Na Bose-Einstein condensate. A dye laser detuned 5 nm red of the Na 3 ^2S \rightarrow 3 ^2P_1⁄2 transition was used to form the three dimensional optical lattice. The