Tunable tunneling: An application of stationary states of Bose-Einstein condensates in traps of finite depth

Details Tunable tunneling: An application of stationary states of Bose-Einstein condensates in traps of finite depth Tunable tunneling: An application of stationary states of Bose-Einstein condensates in traps of finite depth

2001-02-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0102291v1

Phys. Rev. A. 64, 033603 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.64.033603

The fundamental question of how Bose-Einstein condensates tunnel into a barrier is addressed. The cubic nonlinear Schrodinger equation with a finite square well potential, which models a Bose-Einstein condensate in a quasi-one-dimensional trap of finite depth, is solved for the complete set of localized and partially localized stationary states, which the former evolve into when the nonlinearity is increased. An immediate application of these different solution types is tunable tunneling. Magnetically tunable Feshbach resonances can change the scattering length of certain Bose-condensed atoms, such as $^{85}$Rb, by several orders of magnitude, including the sign, and thereby also change the mean field nonlinearity term of the equation and the tunneling of the wavefunction. We find both linear-type localized solutions and uniquely nonlinear partially localized solutions where the tails of the wavefunction become nonzero at infinity when the nonlinearity increases. The tunneling of the wavefunction into the non-classical regime and thus its localization therefore becomes an external experimentally controllable parameter.

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