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Non-hermitian approach to decaying ultracold bosonic systems

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2013-10-23 v1 Quantum Gases Quantum Physics

Abstract

A paradigm model of modern atom optics is studied, strongly interacting ultracold bosons in an optical lattice. This many-body system can be artificially opened in a controlled manner by modern experimental techniques. We present results based on a non-hermitian effective Hamiltonian whose quantum spectrum is analyzed. The direct access to the spectrum of the metastable many-body system allows us to easily identify relatively stable quantum states, corresponding to previously predicted solitonic many-body structures.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5937,
  title  = {Non-hermitian approach to decaying ultracold bosonic systems},
  author = {S. Wimberger and C. A. Parra-Murillo and G. Kordas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5937},
  year   = {2013}
}