Tunneling of two bosonic atoms from a one-dimensional anharmonic trap
Abstract
We investigate the quantum dynamics of two interacting bosonic atoms confined in a one-dimensional anharmonic trap. The tunneling rate, an experimentally measurable parameter of the system, was calculated as a function of the effective coupling interatomic constant from the ground (n=N=0) and first excited atomic states in the trap with respect to relative (n=2,N=0) and center-of-mass (n=0,N=2) atomic motion. This allows to investigate the initial population and pair correlation, as well as the effective coupling constant , of the system by comparing the calculated tunneling rate with the experimental one. We have observed that the only possible tunneling scenario is a sequential particle tunneling in the cases we considered. We have also analyzed a rearrangement of the spectrum in the limit of noninteracting atoms.
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@article{arxiv.1701.06199,
title = {Tunneling of two bosonic atoms from a one-dimensional anharmonic trap},
author = {I. S. Ishmukhamedov and V. S. Melezhik},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.06199},
year = {2017}
}