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Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-20 Javed Akram , Benjamin Girodias , Axel Pelster

The experimental realisation of gaseous Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in 1995 sparked considerable interest in this intriguing quantum fluid. Here we report on progress towards the development of an 87Rb BEC experiment in a large (~10cm…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. S. Arnold , E. Riis

We consider an electrostatic qubit located near a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of noninteracting bosons in a double-well potential, which is used for qubit measurements. Tracing out the BEC variables we obtain a simple analytical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Sokolovski , S. A. Gurvitz

We investigate the cyclotron dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a quadruple-well potential with synthetic gauge fields. We use laser-assisted tunneling to generate large tunable effective magnetic fields for BEC. The mean…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Wen-Yuan Wang , Ji Lin , Jie Liu

A correlated quantum many-body method is applied to describe resonance states of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in a realistic shallow trap (as opposed to infinite traps commonly used). The realistic van der Waals interaction is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-30 Sudip Kumar Haldar , Barnali Chakrabarti , Tapan Kumar Das

We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gravitational wave detector, and study its sensitivity by optimizing the properties of the condensate and the measurement duration. We show that detecting kilohertz gravitational waves is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Niayesh Afshordi , Robert B. Mann

We experimentally measured the ultra-narrow momentum width of an optical trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in situ based on matter-wave interference, which validates our previous theoretical work [arXiv: 2205.02416]. By sweeping the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-16 Angang Liang , Shuyu Zhou , Yu Xie , Mingshan Huang , Su Fang , Bin Wang , Liang Liu

We demonstrate parametric resonance in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with attractive two-body interaction in a harmonic trap under parametric excitation by periodic modulation of the s-wave scattering length. We obtain nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-05-09 William Cairncross , Axel Pelster

The occurrence of phase fluctuations due to thermal excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) is studied for a variety of temperatures and trap geometries. We observe the statistical nature of the appearence of phase fluctuations and…

We propose a device that consists of a trapped two-component phase- separated Bose-Einstein condensate to measure small forces and map weak potential energy landscapes. The resolution as well as the measurement precision of this device can…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-11-25 S. G. Bhongale , Eddy Timmermans

The dynamics of a quantum anharmonic oscillator whose position is monitored by a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a symmetric double well potential is studied. The (non-exponential) decoherence induced on the oscillator by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-29 D. Alonso , S. Brouard , D. Sokolovski

Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) have recently been the subject of considerable study as possible analogue models of general relativity. In particular it was shown that the propagation of phase perturbations in a BEC can, under certain…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) confined on shell-shaped surfaces have been proposed as a platform for exploring many nontrivial quantum phenomena on curved spaces. However, as the shell-shaped trapping potential generated with the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-21 Fan Jia , Zerong Huang , Liyuan Qiu , Rongzi Zhou , Yangqian Yan , Dajun Wang

We determine the behaviour of entanglement between regions of space in a Bose gas of fixed particle number around the critical temperature condensation. Long-range correlations develop in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) phase transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-07 Libby Heaney

Self-trapping is a hallmark phenomenon of nonlinear dynamics. It has significant applications in modern physics, including band structure engineering, phase transition dynamics, quantum metrology, and more. Dilute-gas Bose-Einstein…

The problem of understanding how a coherent, macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) emerges from the cooling of a thermal Bose gas has attracted significant theoretical and experimental interest over several decades. The pioneering…

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which is characterized by long-range and anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions and vanishing s-wave scattering length, in a double-well potential. The properties of this system are investigated…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Asad-uz-Zaman , D. Blume

Rapidly scanning magnetic and optical dipole traps have been widely utilised to form time-averaged potentials for ultracold quantum gas experiments. Here we theoretically and experimentally characterise the dynamic properties of…

We report the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the Bloch bands with off-diagonal periodic potential (ODPP), which simultaneously plays the role of spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and Zeeman field. This model can be realized using two independent…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-13 Yue-Xin Huang , Wei Feng Zhuang , Xiang-Fa Zhou , Han Pu , Guang-Can Guo , Ming Gong

We study the dynamic structure factor of two coherent bright solitary waves in attractive Bose- Einstein condensates confined in a harmonic trap. We demonstrate that the wave function of the two solitary waves with a fixed relative phase…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-05 Weibin Li