Stochastic phase slips in toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates
Abstract
Motivated by recent experiments we study the influence of thermal noise on the phase slips in toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates with a rotating weak link. We derive a generalized Arrhenius-like expression for the rate of stochastic phase slips. We develop a method to estimate the energy barrier separating different superflow states. The parameters at which the energy barrier disappears agree with the critical parameters for deterministic phase slips obtained from dynamics simulations, which confirms the validity of our energetic analysis. We reveal that adding thermal noise lowers the phase-slip threshold. However, the quantitative impact of the stochastic phase slips turns out to be too small to explain the significant discrepancy between theoretical and the experimental results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1610.08837,
title = {Stochastic phase slips in toroidal Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {Kyrylo Snizhko and Karyna Isaieva and Yevhenii Kuriatnikov and Yuriy Bidasyuk and Stanislav Vilchinskii and Alexander Yakimenko},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.08837},
year = {2016}
}
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16 pages, 9 figures