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We review two recent results on the ground state properties of bosonic systems trapped by a double well external potential. In the limit of large population and large separation between the wells we prove that fluctuations in the number of…
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We study the macroscopic quantum self-trapping effect in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensate and a large number of quantum degenerate fermions, trapped in a double-well potential with a variable separation between the wells. The large…
We experimentally study tunneling of Bose-condensed $^{87}$Rb atoms prepared in a quasi-bound state and observe a non-exponential decay caused by interatomic interactions. A combination of a magnetic quadrupole trap and a thin…
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