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We investigate the dynamics of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), composed of atoms in two distinct hyperfine states, which are linearly coupled by two-photon Raman transitions. The condensate is loaded into a double-well…

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We present a complete analysis of the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a symmetric triple-well potential. Our classical analogue treatment, based on a time-dependent variational method using SU(3) coherent states, includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-01 T. F. Viscondi , K. Furuya

We construct a fully self-consistent non-equilibrium theory for the dynamics of two interacting finite-temperature atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. The condensates are described by dissipative Gross-Pitaevskii equations, coupled to quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-15 M. J. Edmonds , K. L. Lee , N. P. Proukakis

The nonlinear dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of dipolar excitons trapped in an external confining potential in coupled quantum wells is analysed. It is demonstrated that under typical experimental conditions the dipolar…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-07-17 O. L. Berman , R. Ya. Kezerashvili , G. V. Kolmakov , Yu. E. Lozovik

Two coupled BECs with a large population imbalance exhibit macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST) if the ratio of interaction energy to tunneling energy is above a critical value. Here we investigate effect of quantum fluctuations on…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-01-25 Rafael Hipolito , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of Feshbach molecules in a homogeneous Bose gas is studied at finite temperatures in a single-channel mean-field approach where the Hartree-Fock energy and pairing gap are determined self-consistently. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-21 Zeng-Qiang Yu , Lan Yin

We study tunneling processes of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on the real time stochastic approach and reveal some properties of their tunneling time. An important result is that the tunneling time decreases as the repulsive interatomic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-19 K. Kobayashi , M. Inoue , Y. Nakamura , K. Honda , Y. Yamanaka

We study the influence of quantum fluctuations on the macroscopic quantum tunneling and self-trapping of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap. Quantum fluctuations are described by the Lee-Huang-Yang term in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-09 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Ravil M. Galimzyanov , Akbar M. Shermakhmatov

We show that the adiabatic dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double well potential can be described in terms of a dark variable resulting from the combination of the population imbalance and the spatial atomic coherence…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-04-21 C. Ottaviani , V. Ahufinger , R. Corbalán , J. Mompart

A new method is used to investigate the tunneling between two weakly-linked Bose-Einstein condensates confined in double-well potential traps. The nonlinear interaction between the atoms in each well contributes to a finite chemical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yunbo Zhang , H. J. W. Müller-Kirsten

The dynamics of weakly interacting three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), trapped in external axially symmetric plus anharmonic distortion potential are studied. Within a variational approach and time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-01 Hamid Al-Jibbouri

In this paper we investigate the stability of a recently introduced Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which involves logarithmic interaction between atoms. The Gaussian variational approach is employed to derive equations of motion for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-14 B. Bouharia

The time-dependent non-equilibrium dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) typically generates incoherent excitations out of the condensate due to the finite frequencies present in the time evolution. We present a detailed derivation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-13 Mauricio Trujillo-Martinez , Anna Posazhennikova , Johann Kroha

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 Phenomenon of multi-step Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of a finite number of non-interacting bosons in anisotropic traps has been demonstrated by studing the populations on eight subsets of states. The cusp in the specific heat is…

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I present an overview of the physics of the Josephson effect between Bose condensed systems, with emphasis on the recently achieved BEC's in trapped alkali gases. I focus mostly on those physical phenomena that are likely to be observed…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Fernando Sols

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 study the mass exchange between two rotating, quantum massive vortices in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. The vortices, in the majority component, exhibit a filled core, where the in-filling minority component undergoes a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-27 Alice Bellettini , Andrea Richaud , Vittorio Penna

We study the macroscopic quantum self-trapping effect in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensate and a large number of quantum degenerate fermions, trapped in a double-well potential with a variable separation between the wells. The large…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-31 S. F. Caballero Benitez , E. A. Ostrovskaya , M. Gulacsi , Yu. S. Kivshar

Coherent coupling between atoms and molecules in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) has been observed. Oscillations between atomic and molecular states were excited by sudden changes in the magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Elizabeth A. Donley , Neil R. Claussen , Sarah T. Thompson , Carl E. Wieman