Shaking lattice results out in PRA

We have a new publication from our shaking lattice experiment, published in Physical Review A. In this work we put a molecular BEC of lithium atom pairs into a shaking optical lattice. The shaking lattice gives the atoms and effective negative mass, and the creates an instability. Surprisingly, we find that this instability results in the condensate splitting into two well-resolved components that subsequently undergo semi-classical dynamics. This might be useful for preparing new and interesting out-of-equilibrium states. Read more about it here: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.108.L051302