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A Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a double-well potential, where atoms are incoupled to one side and extracted from the other, can in the mean-field limit be described by the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-12 Andreas Löhle , Holger Cartarius , Daniel Haag , Dennis Dast , Jörg Main , Günter Wunner

We investigate the mean-field energy spectrum and dynamics in a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential with non-Hermiticity from the nonreciprocal hopping, and show that the interplay of nonreciprocity and nonlinearity leads to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-21 Yi-Piao Wu , Guo-Qing Zhang , Cai-Xia Zhang , Jian Xu , Dan-Wei Zhang

We present a quantum master equation describing a Bose-Einstein condensate with particle loss on one lattice site and particle gain on the other lattice site whose mean-field limit is a non-Hermitian PT-symmetric Gross-Pitaevskii equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-26 Dennis Dast , Daniel Haag , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

We investigate dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in a complex external double-well potential that features a combined parity and time-reversal symmetry. On the basis of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation we study the effects of the long-ranged…

The observation of PT symmetry in a coupled optical wave guide system that involves a complex refractive index has been demonstrated impressively in the experiment by R\"uter el al. (Nat. Phys. 6, 192, 2010). This is, however, only an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

We study theoretically an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap both quantum mechanically and classically under conditions such that in the classical model an unstable equilibrium dissolves into large-scale oscillations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-07 Juha Javanainen

We assume the macroscopic wave function of a Bose-Einstein condensate as a superposition of Gaussian wave packets, with time-dependent complex width parameters, insert it into the mean-field energy functional corresponding to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-09-21 M. Kreibich , H. Cartarius , J. Main , G. Wunner

The most important properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate subject to balanced gain and loss can be modelled by a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with an external $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric double-delta potential. We study its linear variant with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-16 Nikolas Abt , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner

We present analytical stationary solutions for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BECs) trapped in a double-well potential. These solutions are compared with those described by [Mahmud et al., PRA…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Weidong Li

We consider the model of a PT-symmetric Bose-Einstein condensate in a delta-functions double-well potential. We demonstrate that analytic continuation of the primarily non-analytic term |psi|^2 psi - occurring in the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 W. D. Heiss , H. Cartarius , G. Wunner , J. Main

The dynamics of stability and collapse of a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) coupled to a molecular one is studied using the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation including a nonlinear interaction term which can…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Sadhan K. Adhikari

The understanding of nonlinear PT-symmetric quantum systems, arising for example in the theory of Bose-Einstein condensates in PT-symmetric potentials, is widely based on numerical investigations, and little is known about generic features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-24 Eva-Maria Graefe

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) plays an important role in the description of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) at the mean-field level. The GPE belongs to the class of non-linear Schr\"odinger equations which are known to feature…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-05-05 Iva Brezinova , Lee Collins , Katharina Ludwig , Barry Schneider , Joachim Burgdorfer

For the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), differences between mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) physics and $N$-particle quantum physics often disappear if the BEC becomes larger and larger. In particular, the timescale for which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-10 Bettina Gertjerenken , Christoph Weiss

We investigate the nonlinear self-trapping phenomenon of the Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in a symmetric double-well, emphasizing on its behind dynamical phase transition. With increasing the nonlinear parameter depicting the interaction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Li-Bin Fu , Jie Liu

In this paper, we mainly review recent results on mathematical theory and numerical methods for Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), based on the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE). Starting from the simplest case with one-component BEC of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-10 Weizhu Bao , Yongyong Cai

We investigate the formation of non-ground-state Bose-Einstein condensates within the mean-field description represented by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE). The objective is to form excited states of a condensate known as nonlinear…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Leonardo Brito da Silva , Emanuel Fernandes de Lima

Considering the coherent nonlinear dynamics in double square well potential we find the example of coexistence of Josephson oscillations with a self-trapping regime. This macroscopic bistability is explained by proving analytically the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramaz Khomeriki , Jerome Leon , Stefano Ruffo , Sandro Wimberger

We show how non-Hermitian potentials used to describe probability gain and loss in effective theories of open quantum systems can be achieved by a coupling of the system to an environment. We do this by coupling a Bose-Einstein condensate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Fabian Single , Holger Cartarius , Günter Wunner , Jörg Main

We study the quantum dynamics of a binary mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in a double-well potential starting from a two-mode Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. Focussing on the regime where the number of atoms is very large, a mapping…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-28 Roberta Citro , Adele Naddeo , Edmond Orignac
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