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We study the Josephson effect between atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. By drawing on an electrostatic analogy, we derive a semiclassical functional expression for the three-dimensional Josephson coupling energy in terms of the condensate…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Ivar Zapata , Fernando Sols , Anthony J. Leggett

Typical treatments of superconducting or superfluid Josephson junctions rely on mean-field or two-mode models; we explore many-body dynamics of an isolated, ultracold, Bose-gas long Josephson junction using time-evolving block decimation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-05-15 Marie A. McLain , Diego A. Alcala , Lincoln D. Carr

We experimentally and numerically study the collapse dynamics of a quantum vortex in a two-dimensional atomic superfluid following a fast interaction ramp from repulsion to attraction. We find the conditions and time scales for a superfluid…

Computer simulations of many-body quantum dynamics of indistinguishable particles is a challenging task for computational physics. In this paper we demonstrate that the method of coupled coherent states (CCS) developed previously for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 James A. Green , Dmitrii V. Shalashilin

By use of external periodic driving sources, we demonstrate the possibility of controlling the coherent as well as the decoherent dynamics of a two-level atom placed in a lossy cavity. The control of the coherent dynamics is elucidated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Thorwart , L. Hartmann , I. Goychuk , P. Hänggi

We study an atomic Josephson junction (AJJ) in presence of two interacting Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) confined in a double well trap. We assume that bosons of different species interact with each other. The macroscopic wave functions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Giovanni Mazzarella , Marco Moratti , Luca Salasnich , Mario Salerno , Flavio Toigo

We theoretically investigate the generation of microscopic atomic NOON states, corresponding to the coherent |N,0> + |0,N> superposition with N ~ 5 particles, via collective tunneling of interacting ultracold bosonic atoms within a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-11 Guillaume Vanhaele , Peter Schlagheck

We study the collapse of an attractive atomic Bose-Einstein condensate prepared in the uniform potential of an optical-box trap. We characterise the critical point for collapse and the collapse dynamics, observing universal behaviour in…

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

We revisit the coherent or delocalized to self-trapping transition in an interacting bosonic quantum fluid confined in a double well potential, in the context of full quantum calculations. We show that an $N$-particle Bose-Hubbard fluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 S. F. Caballero Benitez , V. Romero-Rochin , R. Paredes

We study the correlation properties of the ground states of few ultracold bosons, trapped in double wells of varying barrier height in one dimension. Extending previous results on the signature of the transition from a Bose-condensed state…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Sascha Zöllner , Hans-Dieter Meyer , Peter Schmelcher

Quantum simulation is a rapidly advancing tool to gain insight into complex quantum states and their dynamics. Trapped ion systems have pioneered deterministic state preparation and comprehensive state characterization, operating on…

We study experimentally the dissipative dynamics of ultracold bosonic gases in a dynamic disorder potential with tunable correlation time. First, we measure the heating rate of thermal clouds exposed to the dynamic potential and present a…

Coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations (CNLS) with an external elliptic function potential model a quasi one--dimensional interacting two-component Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a standing light wave. New families of stationary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. A. Kostov , V. Z. Enol'skii , V. S. Gerdjikov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

We apply the formalism of quantum estimation theory to extract information about potential collapse mechanisms of the continuous spontaneous localisation (CSL) form. In order to estimate the strength with which the field responsible for the…

We apply the concepts of nonlinear guided-wave optics to a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in an external potential. As an example, we consider a parabolic double-well potential and derive coupled-mode equations for the complex…

Starting from an approximate microscopic model of a trapped Bose-condensed gas at finite temperatures, we derive an equation of motion for the condensate wavefunction and a quantum kinetic equation for the distribution function for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Zaremba , T. Nikuni , A. Griffin

We study the dynamics and decay of quantum phase coherence for Bose-Einstein condensates in tunnel-coupled quantum wires. The two elongated Bose-Einstein condensates exhibit a wide variety of dynamic phenomena where quantum fluctuations can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-02-09 Laura Batini , Sebastian Erne , Jörg Schmiedmayer , Jürgen Berges

Ultracold condensates provide a unique platform for exploring soliton physics. Motivated by the recent experiments realizing the sine-Gordon model in a split one-dimensional (1D) BEC, we demonstrate that this system naturally supports…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-10 Zeyu Rao , Xiaoshui Lin , Jingsong He , Guangcan Guo , Ming Gong

In this paper we consider a bosonic Josephson junction described by a two-mode Bose-Hubbard model, and we thoroughly analyze a quantum phase transition occurring in the system in the limit of infinite bosonic population. We discuss the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-22 P. Buonsante , R. Burioni , E. Vescovi , A. Vezzani