



@article {1297,
	title = {Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice},
	journal = {Physical Review A},
	volume = {72},
	year = {2005},
	month = {2005/10/10},
	abstract = {  The phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator has been observed
in a $^{23}$Na Bose-Einstein condensate. A dye laser detuned $\approx 5$nm red
of the Na $3^2$S$ \to 3^2$P$_{1/2}$ transition was used to form the three
dimensional optical lattice. The heating effects of the small detuning as well
as the three-body decay processes constrained the timescale of the experiment.
Certain lattice detunings were found to induce a large loss of atoms. These
loss features were shown to be due to photoassociation of atoms to vibrational
levels in the Na$_2$ $(1) ^3\Sigma_g^+$ state.
},
	doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.72.043604},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0507288v1},
	author = {K. Xu and Y. Liu and J. R. Abo-Shaeer and T. Mukaiyama and J. K. Chin and D. E. Miller and W. Ketterle and Kevin M. Jones and Eite Tiesinga}
}
