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Differences between mean-field dynamics and N-particle quantum dynamics as a signature of entanglement

Other Condensed Matter 2008-12-18 v1

Abstract

A Bose-Einstein condensate in a tilted double-well potential under the influence of time-periodic potential differences is investigated in the regime where the mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) dynamics become chaotic. For some parameters near stable regions, even averaging over several condensate oscillations does not remove the differences between mean-field and N-particle results. While introducing decoherence via piecewise deterministic processes reduces those differences, they are due to the emergence of mesoscopic entangled states in the chaotic regime.

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@article{arxiv.0805.0531,
  title  = {Differences between mean-field dynamics and N-particle quantum dynamics as a signature of entanglement},
  author = {Christoph Weiss and Niklas Teichmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0531},
  year   = {2008}
}

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four pages, five figures