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Feshbach resonances are an invaluable tool in atomic physics, enabling precise control of interactions and the preparation of complex quantum phases of matter. Here, we theoretically analyze a solid-state analogue of a Feshbach resonance in…

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We study a two-level atom coupled to a Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the rules governing the decoherence of mesoscopic superpositions involving different classical-like states of the condensate can be probed using this system. This…

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We theoretically study binary Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a single-well harmonic potential to probe the dynamics of collective atomic motion. The idea is to choose tunable scattering lengths through Feshbach resonances such that…

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The realization of Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold trapped gases has led to a revival of interest in that fascinating quantum phenomenon. This experimental achievement necessitated both extremely low temperatures and sufficiently…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-22 Mihály Máté , Örs Legeza , Rolf Schilling , Mason Yousif , Christian Schilling

A coupled atom-molecule condensate with an intraspecies Feshbach resonance is employed to explore matter wave bistability both in the presence and in the absence of a unidirectional optical ring cavity. In particular, a set of conditions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-18 Hong Y. Ling

We put forward a scheme for controlling Josephson-like tunneling in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates coupled with microwave field via Feshbach resonance and tuning aspect ratio of trapping potential. We prove how to realize a perfect…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Bo Xiong , Weiping Zhang , W. M. Liu

We theoretically examine photoassociation of a non-ideal Bose-Einstein condensate, focusing on evidence for a macroscopic superposition of atoms and molecules. This problem raises an interest because, rather than two states of a given…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 John Calsamiglia , Matt Mackie , Kalle-Antti Suominen

We discuss the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap subject to phase noise and particle loss. The phase coherence of a weakly-interacting condensate, experimentally measured via the contrast in an interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-25 D. Witthaut , F. Trimborn , S. Wimberger

We present a simple example of quantum control in Bose-Einstein condensates via Feshbach resonance. By tuning an initially positive scattering length to zero, it is possible to generate oscillatory motion of the condensate that results from…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Choi , N. P. Bigelow

We consider a macroscopic two-sate system based on persistent current states of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of interacting neutral atoms confined in a ring with a weak Josephson link. We demonstrate that macroscopic superpositions of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-20 Dmitry Solenov , Dmitry Mozyrsky

Bose-Einstein condensation has been achieved in a magnetically trapped sample of 85Rb atoms. Long-lived condensates of up to 10^4 atoms have been produced by using a magnetic-field-induced Feshbach resonance to reverse the sign of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 S. L. Cornish , N. R. Claussen , J. L. Roberts , E. A. Cornell , C. E. Wieman

We have observed Bose-Einstein condensation of pairs of fermionic atoms in an ultracold ^6Li gas at magnetic fields above a Feshbach resonance, where no stable ^6Li_2 molecules would exist in vacuum. We accurately determined the position of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. W. Zwierlein , C. A. Stan , C. H. Schunck , S. M. F. Raupach , A. J. Kerman , W. Ketterle

We introduce higher dimensions into the problem of Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential, taking into account orbital angular momentum. We completely characterize the eigenstates of this system, delineating new regimes via…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-10 M. A. Garcia-March , D. R. Dounas-Frazer , Lincoln D. Carr

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential in the two-mode approximation. The dissipation of energy from the condensate is described by the coupling to a thermal reservoir of non-condensate modes. As a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Janne Ruostekoski , Dan F. Walls

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of Feshbach molecules in a homogeneous Bose gas is studied at finite temperatures in a single-channel mean-field approach where the Hartree-Fock energy and pairing gap are determined self-consistently. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-21 Zeng-Qiang Yu , Lan Yin

We propose a novel protocol for the creation of macroscopic quantum superposition (MQS) states based on a measurement of a non-monotonous function of a quantum collective variable. The main advantage of this protocol is that it does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. E. Mazets , G. Kurizki , M. K. Oberthaler , J. Schmiedmayer

Theoretical treatments of non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixtures are complicated by the inherent non-Gaussian nature of the vacuum two-body physics, invalidating the typical Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov…

We model combined photoassociation and Feshbach resonances in a Bose-Einstein condensate, where the shared dissociation continuum allows for quantum interference in losses from the condensate, as well as a dispersive-like shift of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 Matt Mackie , Catherine DeBrosse

We suggest an experiment to investigate the linear superposition of two spatially separated Bose-Einstein condensates. Due to the coherent combination of the two wave functions, the dynamic structure factor, measurable through inelastic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

We present how to control interactions between solitons, either bright or dark, in Bose-Einstein condensates by synchronizing Feshbach resonance and harmonic trap. Our results show that as long as the scattering length is to be modulated in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-08-29 Xiao-Fei Zhang , Qin Yang , Jie-Fang Zhang , X. Z. Chen , W. M. Liu