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Dynamical evolution of quantum mechanical squeezing and entanglement in a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate (TBEC) with an adiabatic, time-varying Raman coupling is studied by finding analytical expressions for these quantities. In…

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The coherence properties of phase fluctuating Bose-Einstein condensates are studied both theoretically and experimentally. We derive a general expression for the N-particle correlation function of a condensed Bose gas in a highly elongated…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Cacciapuoti , D. Hellweg , M. Kottke , T. Schulte , K. Sengstock , W. Ertmer , J. J. Arlt , L. Santos , M. Lewenstein

We show that the visibility in interference experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates is directly related to the condensate fraction. The probability distribution of the contrast over many runs of an interference experiment thus gives the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-11-23 Steffen Patrick Rath , Wilhelm Zwerger

This paper deals with the study of the behaviour of the wave functions of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate near the interface, in the case of strong segregation. This yields a system of two coupled ODE's for which we want to have…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-05-17 Amandine Aftalion , Christos Sourdis

A shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate released from its confinement expands radially both outwards and inwards, displaying a self-interference pattern characterized by a density peak surrounded by a halo. Here we analyze how an external…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-12-23 Andrea Tononi , Maciej Lewenstein , Luis Santos

We investigate the interference of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in micro-gravity, which influenced by the interaction strength, initial momentum, gravitational potential and phase difference. We demonstrate that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-03 Tie-Fu Zhang , Hao Zhu , Wen-Kai Bai , Kai Liu , Yi-Hui Xing , Wu-Ming Liu

A quantum phase transition between the symmetric (polar) phase and the phase with broken symmetry can be induced in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate in space (rather than in time). We consider such a phase transition and show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bogdan Damski , Wojciech H. Zurek

Atom interferometers covering macroscopic domains of space-time are a spectacular manifestation of the wave nature of matter. Due to their unique coherence properties, Bose-Einstein condensates are ideal sources for an atom interferometer…

We study the tunneling properties of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate by using an effective 1D nonpolynomial nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NPSE). First we investigate a mechanism to generate periodic pulses of coherent matter by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Salasnich , A. Parola , L. Reatto

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 numerically study the many-body physics of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates with strong dipole-dipole interactions. We observe the formation of self-bound droplets, and explore phase diagrams that feature a variety of exotic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-07 Matthias Schmidt , Lucas Lassablière , Goulven Quéméner , Tim Langen

We investigate the effects of interatomic interactions and expansion on the distortion of interference fringes of a pair of initially well-separated, but coherent, condensate clouds trapped in a harmonic trap. The distortion of interference…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-01-03 Bo Xiong , Tao Yang , Keith A. Benedict

We propose a method of measuring diffusion of the relative phase between two Bose-Einstein condensates occupying different nuclear or spin hyperfine states coupled by a two-photon transition via an intermediate level. Due to the macroscopic…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Janne Ruostekoski , Dan F. Walls

The interacting quantum Bose gas is a random ensemble of many Brownian bridges (cycles) of various lengths with interactions between any pair of legs of the cycles. It is one of the standard mathematical models in which a proof for the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Orphée Collin , Benedikt Jahnel , Wolfgang König

We show that it is possible to reach the sub shot-noise sensitivity of the phase estimation using two independently prepared Bose-Einstein condensates as an input of an interferometer. In this scenario, the quantum correlations between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 T. Wasak , P. Szańkowski , J. Chwedeńczuk

Here we describe a weakly interacting Bose gas on a curved manifold, which is embedded in the three-dimensional Euclidean space.~To this end we start by considering a harmonic trap in the normal direction of the manifold, which confines the…

Spatially resolved relative phase measurement of two adjacent 1D Bose gases is enabled by matter-wave interference upon free expansion. However, longitudinal dynamics is typically ignored in the analysis of experimental data. We provide an…

We examine a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. We propose a model for the creation of many-particle macroscopic quantum superposition states. The effect of dissipation on the formation of these states is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-13 Gábor Csire , Barnabás Apagyi

We analyze the periodic tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential which has an oscillating energy barrier. We show that the dynamics of the Bose condensate critically depends on the frequency $\omega$ of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Salasnich

We present a detailed numerical study of the effect of a disordered potential on a confined one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate, in the framework of a mean-field description. For repulsive interactions, we consider the Thomas-Fermi and…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Eric Akkermans , Sankalpa Ghosh , Ziad Musslimani