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Spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by interaction in linearly coupled binary Bose Einstein condensates

Quantum Gases 2022-02-15 v1 Pattern Formation and Solitons

Abstract

We analyze the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) induced by one specific component of a linearly coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The model is based on linearly coupled Schr\"odinger equations with cubic nonlinearity and with a double-well (DW) potential acting on only one of the atomic components. By numerical simulations, symmetric and asymmetric ground-states were obtained, and an induced asymmetry in the partner field was observed. In this sense, we properly demonstrated that the linear coupling mixing the two-field component (Rabi coupling) promotes the (in)balance between atomic species, as well as the appearance of the Josephson and SSB phases.

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@article{arxiv.2202.06730,
  title  = {Spontaneous symmetry breaking induced by interaction in linearly coupled binary Bose Einstein condensates},
  author = {Mateus C. P. dos Santos and Wesley B. Cardoso},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.06730},
  year   = {2022}
}

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7 pages, 4 figures

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