Empirical Inference

Suppression and Revival of Weak Localization through Control of Time-Reversal Symmetry

2015

Article

OS Lab


We report on the observation of suppression and revival of coherent backscattering of ultracold atoms launched in an optical disorder in a quasi-2D geometry and submitted to a short dephasing pulse, as proposed by Micklitz, Müller, and Altland [Phys. Rev. B 91, 064203 (2015)]. This observation demonstrates a novel and general method to study weak localization by manipulating time reversal symmetry in disordered systems. In future experiments, this scheme could be extended to investigate higher order localization processes at the heart of Anderson (strong) localization.

Author(s): Kilian Müller and Jeremie Richard and Valentin Volchkov and Vincent Denechaud and Philippe Bouyer and Alain Aspect and Vincent Josse
Journal: Physical Review Letters
Volume: 114
Pages: 205301
Year: 2015
Month: May
Day: 18
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)

Department(s): Optics and Sensing Laboratory
Bibtex Type: Article (article)
Paper Type: Journal

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.205301
State: Published

BibTex

@article{cbsr15,
  title = {Suppression and Revival of Weak Localization through Control of Time-Reversal Symmetry},
  author = {M{\"u}ller, Kilian and Richard, Jeremie and Volchkov, Valentin and Denechaud, Vincent and Bouyer, Philippe and Aspect, Alain and Josse, Vincent},
  journal = {Physical Review Letters},
  volume = {114},
  pages = {205301},
  publisher = {American Physical Society (APS)},
  month = may,
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.205301},
  month_numeric = {5}
}