Resonant ratcheting of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Details Resonant ratcheting of a Bose-Einstein condensate Resonant ratcheting of a Bose-Einstein condensate

2007-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/0710.1339v1

NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS 10, 013008 (2008).

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Quantum Physics

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We study the rectification process of interacting quantum particles in a periodic potential exposed to the action of an external ac driving. The breaking of spatio-temporal symmetries leads to directed motion already in the absence of interactions. A hallmark of quantum ratcheting is the appearance of resonant enhancement of the current (Europhys. Lett. 79 (2007) 10007 and Phys. Rev. A 75 (2007) 063424). Here we study the fate of these resonances within a Gross-Pitaevskii equation which describes a mean field interaction between many particles. We find, that the resonance is i) not destroyed by interactions, ii) shifting its location with increasing interaction strength. We trace the Floquet states of the linear equations into the nonlinear domain, and show that the resonance gives rise to an instability and thus to the appearance of new nonlinear Floquet states, whose transport properties differ strongly as compared to the case of noninteracting particles.

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