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We compute the interaction energies of a two-atom system placed in the middle of a perfectly reflecting planar cavity, in the perturbative regime. Explicit expressions are provided for the van der Waals potentials of two polarisable atomic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 M. Donaire , J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda , L. M. Nieto

We develop a quantum simulator architecture that is suitable for the simulation of $U(1)$ Abelian gauge theories such as quantum electrodynamics. Our approach relies on the ability to control the hopping of a particle through a barrier by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-16 A. S. Dehkharghani , E. Rico , N. T. Zinner , A. Negretti

We analyze the dynamics of the molecular field incoherently pumped by the photoassociation of fermionic atoms and coupled by quantum tunnelling in a double-well potential. The relative phase distribution of the molecular modes in each well…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Miyakawa , C. P. Search , P. Meystre

We study the parity effect of the particle number in the interference fringes of a Bose-Einstein condensate released from a double-well potential. For a coherently splitting condensate in the double-well potential, with a decoupled two-mode…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-07-08 Hongwei Xiong , Shujuan Liu

Quantum well of AlGaAs/GaAs is very important to study transport properties of electrons due to its wider application in electronic devices. Hence, the double well of AlGaAs/GaAs with triple barrier is taken to study transmission…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Krishna Rana Magar , Upendra Rijal , Sanju Shrestha

The problem of quantum state discrimination between two wave functions of a particle in a square well potential is considered. The optimal minimum-error probability is known to be given by the Helstrom bound. A new strategy is introduced by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-28 Bernhard K. Meister

In his celebrated textbook, $\textit{Quantum Mechanics: Nonrelativistic Theory}$, Landau argued that, for single particle systems in 1D, tunneling probability remains the same for a particle incident from the left or the right of a barrier.…

We consider the simplest non-integrable model of multistate Landau-Zener transition. In this model two pairs of levels in two tunnel coupled quantum dots are swept passed each other by the gate voltage. Although this 2 * 2 model is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 Rajesh K. Malla , M. E. Raikh

We examine the Hawking effect by studying the asymptotic entanglement of two mutually independent two-level atoms placed at a fixed radial distance outside a Schwarzschild black hole in the framework of open quantum systems. We treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-05 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

The double-well potential is a good example, where we can compute the splitting in the bound state energy of the system due to the tunneling effect with various methods, namely WKB or instanton calculations. All these methods are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Fatih Erman , O. Teoman Turgut

The problem of one pair of identical nucleons sitting in ${\cal N}$ single particle levels of a potential well and interacting through the pairing force is treated introducing, in the Hamiltonian formalism, even Grassmann variables. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. B. Barbaro , L. Fortunato , A. Molinari , M. R. Quaglia

We study tunneling in various shaped, closed, two-dimensional, flat potential, double wells by calculating the energy splitting between symmetric and anti-symmetric state pairs. For shapes that have regular or nearly regular classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Louis M. Pecora , Hoshik Lee , Dong-Ho Wu

We show that the dipole-dipole interaction between two Rydberg atoms can give rise to long range molecules. The binding potential arises from two states that converge to different separated atom asymptotes. These states interact weakly at…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Martin Kiffner , Hyunwook Park , Wenhui Li , Tom F. Gallagher

We theoretically investigate the optical functionality of a semiconducting quantum ring manipulated by two electrostatic lateral gates used to induce a double quantum well along the ring. The well parameters and corresponding inter-level…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 T. P. Collier , V. A. Saroka , M. E. Portnoi

The extended Bose-Hubbard model for a double-well potential with pair tunneling is studied through both exact diagonalization and mean field theory (MFT). When pair tunneling is strong enough, the ground state wavefunction predicted by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-05 Qizhong Zhu , Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

A theory for the tunneling of one atom out of a trap containing two interacting cold atoms is developed. The quasiparticle wave function, dressed by the interaction with the companion atom in the trap, replaces the non-interacting orbital…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-19 Massimo Rontani

We describe the design and implementation of a 2D optical lattice of double wells suitable for isolating and manipulating an array of individual pairs of atoms in an optical lattice. Atoms in the square lattice can be placed in a double…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Sebby-Strabley , M. Anderlini , P. S. Jessen , J. V. Porto

We consider the properties of stationary states and the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a double-well (DW) potential with pair tunneling by using a full quantum-mechanical treatment. Furthermore, we study the quantum quench…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-07 Linghua Wen , Qizhong Zhu , Tianfu Xu , Xili Jing , Chengshi Liu

We study the dynamic process of splitting a condensate by raising a potential barrier in the center of a harmonic trap. We use a two-mode model to describe the phase coherence between the two halves of the condensate. Furthermore, we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Menotti , J. R. Anglin , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

We investigate a Hamiltonian with radial potential wells and an Aharonov-Bohm vector potential with two poles. Assuming that the potential wells are symmetric, we derive the semi-classical asymptotics of the splitting between the ground and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Bernard Helffer , Ayman Kachmar