Olshanii Maxim, Weiss David
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Aug 26;89(9):090404. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.090404. Epub 2002 Aug 13.
We relate the entropies of ensembles of atoms in optical lattices to atoms in simple traps. We then determine which ensembles of lattice-bound atoms will adiabatically transform into a Bose condensate. This shows a feasible approach to Bose condensation without evaporative cooling.