Nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling in quantum phase space

Details Nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling in quantum phase space Nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling in quantum phase space

2010-09-30

arxiv.org/abs/1010.0016v1

New J. Phys. 12, 053010 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

26 pages, 12 figures

Scientific paper

10.1088/1367-2630/12/5/053010

We present a detailed analysis of the Landau-Zener problem for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a time-varying double-well trap, especially focussing on the relation between the full many-particle problem and the mean-field approximation. Due to the nonlinear self-interaction a dynamical instability occurs, which leads to a breakdown of adiabaticity condition and thus fundamentally alters the dynamics. It is shown that essentially all features of the Landau-Zener problem including the depletion of the condensate mode can be already understood within a semiclassical phase space picture. In particular, this treatment resolves the formerly imputed incommutability of the adiabatic and semiclassical limits. The possibility to exploit Landau-Zener sweeps to generate squeezed states for spectroscopic tasks is analysed in detail. Moreover, we study the influence of phase noise and propose a Landau-Zener sweep as a sensitive, yet readily implementable probe for decoherence, since this has a significant effect on the transition rate for slow parameter variations.

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