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Quantum dynamics of attractive versus repulsive bosonic Josephson junctions: Bose-Hubbard and full-Hamiltonian results

Quantum Gases 2010-07-28 v1

Abstract

The quantum dynamics of one-dimensional bosonic Josephson junctions with attractive and repulsive interparticle interactions is studied using the Bose-Hubbard model and by numerically-exact computations of the full many-body Hamiltonian. A symmetry present in the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian dictates an equivalence between the evolution in time of attractive and repulsive Josephson junctions with attractive and repulsive interactions of equal magnitude. The full many-body Hamiltonian does not possess this symmetry and consequently the dynamics of the attractive and repulsive junctions are different.

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@article{arxiv.0911.4661,
  title  = {Quantum dynamics of attractive versus repulsive bosonic Josephson junctions: Bose-Hubbard and full-Hamiltonian results},
  author = {Kaspar Sakmann and Alexej I. Streltsov and Ofir E. Alon and Lorenz S. Cederbaum},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.4661},
  year   = {2010}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures