Tunneling of trapped-atom Bose condensates

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2005-08-24

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508581v1

Pramana, vol.58 (2002), pp. 385-397

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This is an overview of some work done with colleagues on the dynamics of tunneling between interacting bosons, with four disti

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We obtain the dynamics in number and phase difference, for Bose condensates that tunnel between two wells of a double-well atomic trap, using the (nonlinear) Gross-Pitaevskii equation.The dynamical equations are of the canonical form for the two conjugate variables, and the Hamiltonian corresponds to that of a momentum-shortened pendulum, supporting a richer set of tunneling oscillation modes than for a superconductor Josephson junction, that has a fixed-length pendulum as a mechanical model. Novel modes include "inverted pendulum" oscillations with an average angle of \pi; and oscillations about a self-maintained population imbalance that we term "macroscopic quantum self-trapping". Other systems with this phase-number nonlinear dynamics include twocomponent (interconverting) condensates in a single harmonic trap, and He^{3}B superfluids in two containers connected by micropores.

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