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Towards a Landau-Zener formula for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We consider the Landau-Zener problem for a Bose-Einstein condensate in a linearly varying two-level system, for the full many-particle system as well and in the mean-field approximation. The many-particle problem can be solved approximately within an independent crossings approximation, which yields an explicit Landau-Zener formula.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0602163,
  title  = {Towards a Landau-Zener formula for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {D. Witthaut and E. M. Graefe and H. J. Korsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0602163},
  year   = {2007}
}

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RevTeX, 8 pages, 9 figures