Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-03-10
Phys. Rev. A 83, 053607 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
11 pages, 10 figures, 1 table. Title and abstract changed. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.053607
We consider a bosonic Josephson junction made of $N$ ultracold and dilute atoms confined by a quasi one-dimensional double-well potential within the two-site Bose-Hubbard model framework. The behaviour of the system is investigated at zero temperature by varying the inter-atomic interaction from the strongly attractive regime to the repulsive one. We show that the ground-state exhibits a crossover from a macroscopic Schr\"odinger-cat state to a separable Fock state through an atomic coherent regime. By diagonalizing the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian we characterize the emergence of the mascroscopic cat states by calculating the Fisher information $F$, the coherence by means of the visibility $\alpha$ of the interference fringes in the momentum distribution, and the quantum correlations by using the entanglement entropy $S$. Both Fisher information and visibility are shown to be related to the ground state energy by employing the Hellmann-Feynman theorem. This result, together with a perturbative calculation of the ground-state energy, makes possible to obtain simple analytical formulas for $F$ and $\alpha$ over a range of interactions, in excellent agreement with the exact diagonalization of the Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. In the attractive regime the entanglement entropy attains values very close to its upper limit for a specific interaction strength lying in the region where coherence is lost and self trapping sets in.
Mazzarella Giovanni
Parola Alberto
Salasnich Luca
Toigo Flavio
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