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Coherent control of a self-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate

Other Condensed Matter 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We study the behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate held in an optical lattice. We first show how a self-trapping transition can be induced in the system by either increasing the number of atoms occupying a lattice site, or by raising the interaction strength above a critical value. We then investigate how applying a periodic driving potential to the self-trapped state can be used to coherently control the emission of a precise number of correlated bosons from the trapping-site. This allows the formation and transport of entangled bosonic states, which are of great relevance to novel technologies such as quantum information processing.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609703,
  title  = {Coherent control of a self-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {C. E. Creffield},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609703},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 5 EPS figures