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We study the bosonic Boltzmann-Nordheim kinetic equation, which describes the kinetic regime of weakly interacting bosons with s-wave scattering only. We consider a spatially homogeneous fluid with an isotropic momentum distribution. The…

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We study the dynamics of binary Bose-Einstein condensates made of ultracold and dilute alkali-metal atoms in a quasi-one-dimensional setting. Numerically solving the two coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations which accurately describe the…

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Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel G. Barci , E. S. Fraga , Rudnei O. Ramos

The mean-field dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied in presence of a microscopic trapping potential from which the condensate can escape via tunneling through finite barriers. We show that the method of complex scaling can be…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Peter Schlagheck , Tobias Paul

A negative effective mass can be realized in quantum systems by engineering the dispersion relation. A powerful method is provided by spin-orbit coupling, which is currently at the center of intense research efforts. Here we measure an…

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Karyn Le Hur

We propose a method to produce entangled states of several particles starting from a Bose-Einstein condensate. In the proposal, a single fast $\pi/2$ pulse is applied to the atoms and due to the collisional interaction, the subsequent free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anders Sorensen , Lu-Ming Duan , Ignacio Cirac , Peter Zoller

We introduce a two-dimensional walk model in which a random walker can only move on the first quarter of a two-dimensional plane. We calculate the partition function of this walk model using a transfer matrix method and show that the model…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Farhad H. Jafarpour

Many-particle entanglement is a fundamental concept of quantum physics that still presents conceptual challenges. While spin-squeezed and other nonclassical states of atomic ensembles were used to enhance measurement precision in quantum…

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We propose and analyse a practically implementable scheme to generate macroscopic entanglement of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a micro-magnetic trap magnetically coupled to a superconducting loop. We treat the superconducting loop in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-09 Mandip Singh

We report on an experimental simulation of the spin-1 Heisenberg model with composite bosons in a one-dimensional chain based on the two-component Bose-Hubbard model. Exploiting our site-and spin-resolved quantum gas microscope, we observed…

We use the quantum kinetic theory to calculate the steady state and the fluctuations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. The system is divided in a condensate and a non-condensate part. A quantum mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Jaksch , C. W. Gardiner , K. M. Gheri , P. Zoller

We derive a stochastic process that describes the kinetics of a one-dimensional Bose gas in a regime where three body collisions are important. In this situation the system becomes non integrable offering the possibility to investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-30 Patrick Navez , Achilleas Lazarides

We study the Bloch dynamics of a quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate of cold atoms in a tilted optical lattice modeled by a Hamiltonian of Bose-Hubbard type: The corresponding mean-field system described by a discrete nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Andrey R. Kolovsky , Hans Jürgen Korsch , Eva-Maria Graefe

We theoretically investigate the effect of multi-mode dynamics on the creation of macroscopic superposition states (spin-cat states) in Bose-Einstein condensates via one-axis twisting. A two-component Bose-Einstein condensate naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-11 Samuel P. Nolan , Simon A. Haine

The statistical mechanics of a system of non-relativistic charged particles in a constant magnetic field is discussed. The spatial dimension $D$ is arbitrary with $D\geq 3$ assumed. Calculations are presented from first principles using the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guy B. Standen , David J. Toms

We investigate the real-time evolution of lattice bosons in two spatial dimensions whose dynamics is governed by a Markovian quantum master equation. We employ the Wigner-Weyl phase space quantization and derive the functional integral for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-12-19 Florian Hebenstreit

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate driven by periodic delta-kicks. In contrast to first-order descriptions, which predict rapid, unbounded growth of the noncondensate in resonant parameter regimes, the consistent treatment of condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-24 T. P. Billam , S. A. Gardiner

The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in the lowest energy band of a one-dimensional optical lattice is generally disturbed by the presence of transversally excited resonant states. We propose an effective one-dimensional theory which…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 K. -P. Marzlin , V. I. Yukalov