Macroscopic quantum tunneling of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

Details Macroscopic quantum tunneling of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates Macroscopic quantum tunneling of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

2001-03-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0103374v2

Phys. Rev. A, vol.64, 053605 (2001)

Physics

Condensed Matter

11 pages, 10 figures, revtex4

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.64.053605

We show theoretically the existence of a metastable state and the possibility of decay to the ground state through macroscopic quantum tunneling in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interactions. Numerical analysis of the coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations clarifies the metastable states whose configuration preserves or breaks the symmetry of the trapping potential, depending on the interspecies interaction and the particle number. We calculate the tunneling decay rate of the metastable state by using the collective coordinate method under the WKB approximation. Then the height of the energy barrier is estimated by the saddle point solution. It is found that macroscopic quantum tunneling is observable in a wide range of particle numbers. Macroscopic quantum coherence between two distinct states is discussed; this might give an additional coherent property of two-component Bose condensed systems. Thermal effects on the decay rate are estimated.

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