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We theoretically investigate the creation of squeezed states of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) trapped in a magnetic double well potential. The number or phase squeezed states are created by modulating the tunnel coupling between the two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-13 Georg Jäger , Tarik Berrada , Jörg Schmiedmayer , Thorsten Schumm , Ulrich Hohenester

We propose a technique, using interferometry of Bose-Einstein condensed alkali atoms, for the detection of sub-micron-range forces. It may extend present searches at 1 micron by 6 to 9 orders of magnitude, deep into the theoretically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Savas Dimopoulos , Andrew A. Geraci

We propose a microscopic approach describing the interaction of an ideal gas of hydrogenlike atoms with a weak electromagnetic field. This approach is based on the Green-function formalism and an approximate formulation of the method of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-19 Yurii Slyusarenko , Andrii Sotnikov

We investigate how to estimate from atom-position measurements the relative phase of two Bose-Einstein condensates released from a double-well potential. We demonstrate that the phase estimation sensitivity via the fit of the average…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Jan Chwedenczuk , Francesco Piazza , Augusto Smerzi

The aim of this work is to investigate how energy depends on the two-body interaction potential in Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) phenomena. An equation of state is obtained which is valid both for low and high energy BEC, through the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-28 Vito Barbarani

The dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential are analysed in terms of transitions between energy eigenstates. By solving the time-dependent and time-independent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in one dimension, we…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Sakellari , M. Leadbeater , N. J. Kylstra , C. S. Adams

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

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

We discuss coherent atomic oscillations between two weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates that are energetically different. The weak link is notionally provided by a laser barrier in a (possibly asymmetric) multi-well trap or by Raman…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-05-25 John D. Andersen , Srikanth Raghavan , V. M. Kenkre

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 dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well trap subject to phase noise and particle loss. The phase coherence of a weakly-interacting condensate, experimentally measured via the contrast in an interference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-25 D. Witthaut , F. Trimborn , S. Wimberger

We develop a time-optimal approach to force sensing using a Bose-Einstein condensate in a shaken optical lattice. Optimal control protocols are derived from a Fisher information framework and yield optimal dynamics that spontaneously…

A protocol for teleportation of the state of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a three-well potential is developed. The protocol uses hard-sphere cross-collision between the condensate modes as a means of generating entanglement. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. C. de Oliveira

We present a theoretical study of the ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive inter-particle interactions in a double-well potential, using a restricted variational principle. Within such an approach, there is a transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. W. Spekkens , J. E. Sipe

Bose Einstein Condensates, with their coherence properties, have attracted wide interest for their possible application to ultra precise interferometry and ultra weak force sensors. Since condensates, unlike photons, are interacting, they…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Pezze' , L. A. Collins A. Smerzi , G. P. Berman , A. R. Bishop

We demonstrate the operation of an atom interferometer based on a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. We strongly reduce the interaction induced decoherence that usually limits interferometers based on trapped condensates by tuning…

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 perform a mean-field study of the binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures as a function of the mutual repulsive interaction strength. In the phase segregated regime, we find that there are two distinct phases: the weakly segregated…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Ao , S. T. Chui

This paper is devoted to the study of the dynamics of two weakly-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a double-well trap and perturbed by random external forces. Energy diffusion due to random forcing allows the system to visit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Garnier , F. Kh. Abdullaev

The effect of noise induced by gravitons on a Bose-Einstein condensate has been explored in (Phys. Rev. D 110 (2024) 026014; https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.110.026014). In the previous paper, we investigated the effects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-06 Soham Sen , Sunandan Gangopadhyay