Bistability and macroscopic quantum coherence in a BEC of ^7Li

Details Bistability and macroscopic quantum coherence in a BEC of ^7Li Bistability and macroscopic quantum coherence in a BEC of ^7Li

2002-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0202234v3

Phys. Rev. A 66, 013605 (2002)

Physics

Condensed Matter

8 pages, 11 figures. e-mail: almont@ino.it

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.66.013605

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of $^7Li$ in a situation where the density undergoes a symmetry breaking in real space. This occurs for a suitable number of condensed atoms in a double well potential, obtained by adding a standing wave light field to the trap potential. Evidence of bistability results from the solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. By second quantization, we show that the classical bistable situation is in fact a Schr\"odinger cat (SC) and evaluate the tunneling rate between the two SC states. The oscillation between the two states is called MQC (macroscopic quantum coherence); we study the effects of losses on MQC.

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