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Adiabatic preparation of Floquet condensates

Quantum Gases 2017-07-11 v1

Abstract

We argue that a Bose-Einstein condensate can be transformed into a Floquet condensate, that is, into a periodically time-dependent many-particle state possessing the coherence properties of a mesoscopically occupied single-particle Floquet state. Our reasoning is based on the observation that the denseness of the many-body system's quasienergy spectrum does not necessarily obstruct effectively adiabatic transport. Employing the idealized model of a driven bosonic Josephson junction, we demonstrate that only a small amount of Floquet entropy is generated when a driving force with judiciously chosen frequency and maximum amplitude is turned on smoothly.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08199,
  title  = {Adiabatic preparation of Floquet condensates},
  author = {Christoph Heinisch and Martin Holthaus},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08199},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

8 pages, 8 figures in Journal Of Modern Optics (2016), Special issue: '20 years of Bose-Einstein Condensates: Current trends and applications of ultracold quantum gases'