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We study the current dynamics of coupled atomic condensates flowing in two ring-shaped optical potentials. We provide a specific setup where the ring-ring coupling can be tuned in experimentally feasible way. It is demonstrated that the…

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Josephson junctions are essential ingredients in the superconducting circuits used in many existing quantum technologies. Additionally, ultracold atomic quantum gases have also become essential platforms to study superfluidity. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-26 Mário H. Figlioli Donato , Sérgio R. Muniz

Dynamical tunnelling is a quantum phenomenon where a classically forbidden process occurs, that is prohibited not by energy but by another constant of motion. The phenomenon of dynamical tunnelling has been recently observed in a sodium…

We investigate the low-energy dynamics of two coupled anisotropic Bose-Einstein condensates forming a long Josephson junction. The theoretical study is performed in the framework of the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-09-11 M. R. Momme , Y. M. Bidasyuk , M. Weyrauch

We investigate Josephson transport in a fully closed, two-dimensional superfluid circuit formed by a ring-shaped 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate that contains two optical barriers acting as movable weak links. Translating these barriers at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-29 Koon Siang Gan , Vijay Pal Singh , Luigi Amico , Rainer Dumke

We investigate the tunnelling dynamics of Bose-Einstein-Condensates(BECs) in a symmetric as well as in a tilted triple-well trap within the framework of mean-field treatment. The eigenenergies as the functions of the zero-point energy…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Bin Liu , Li-Bin Fu , Shi-Ping Yang , Jie Liu

Josephson weak links in superconductors can be engineered such that the phase difference across the junction is $\pi$ ($\pi$-junction),leading to the reversal of the current. The conditions under which the analogous effect of supercurrent…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Sakellari , N. P. Proukakis , M. Leadbeater , C. S. Adams

We consider an ultracold bosonic binary mixture confined in a one-dimensional double-well trap. The two bosonic components are assumed to be two hyperfine internal states of the same atom. We suppose that these two components are spin-orbit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-06-17 M. A. Garcia-March , G. Mazzarella , L. Dell'Anna , B. Juliá-Díaz , L. Salasnich , A. Polls

The Josephson dynamics of the Bose-Einstein condensation with Raman-induced spin-orbit coupling is investigated. A quasi-1D trap is divided into two reservoirs by an optical barrier. Before the tunneling between the reservoirs is turned on,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-09 Chunyuan Shan , Xiaoyu Dai , Boyang Liu

We study the population dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential throughout the crossover from Josephson dynamics to hydrodynamics. At barriers higher than the chemical potential, we observe slow oscillations well…

The dynamics of bosons in Josephson junctions have drawn much attention where the bosons are initially condensed. When interacting bosons tunnel back and forth along the junction, depletion and eventually fragmentation develop. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-07 Anal Bhowmik , Ofir E. Alon

We study a binary Bose gas in a symmetric dual-core, pancake-shaped trap, modelled by two linearly coupled two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equations with Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. Two different cases are considered. First, we consider a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-04 Sherzod R. Otajonov , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Akbar Shermaxmatov

We study dynamical processes in coherently coupled atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Josephson effects in ring-shaped and dumbbell geometries are theoretically investigated. Conditions for observation of the Josephson effect are revealed.…

We study the quantum coherent-tunneling between two Bose-Einstein condensates separated through an oscillating trap potential. The cases of slowly and rapidly varying in time trap potential are considered. In the case of a slowly varying…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Kh. Abdullaev , R. A. Kraenkel

The burgeoning field of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute alkali and hydrogen gases has stimulated a great deal of research into the statistical physics of weakly interacting quantum degenerate systems. The recent experiments offer the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Williams , M. J. Holland

We discuss the coherent atomic oscillations between two weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. The weak link is provided by a laser barrier in a (possibly asymmetric) double-well trap or by Raman coupling between two condensates in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Raghavan , A. Smerzi , S. Fantoni , S. R. Shenoy

We study quantum dynamical properties of a spin-1 atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. Adopting a mean field theory and single spatial mode approximation, we characterize our model system as two coupled spins. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu , M. Zhang , L. You

A ring-shaped array of Bose-Einstein condensed atomic gases can display circular currents if the relative phase of neighboring condensates becomes locked to certain values. It is shown that, irrespective of the mechanism responsible for…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Gh. -S. Paraoanu

Macroscopic coherence in quantum fluids allows the observation of interference effects in their wavefunctions, and enables applications such as superconducting quantum interference devices based on Josephson tunneling. The Josephson effect…

We report on the direct observation of an oscillating atomic current in a one-dimensional array of Josephson junctions realized with an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. The array is created by a laser standing-wave, with the condensates…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 F. S. Cataliotti , S. Burger , C. Fort , P. Maddaloni , F. Minardi , A. Trombettoni , A. Smerzi , M. Inguscio