Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2004-02-08
J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 4 (2002)295-299
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
10 pages, 2 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1464-4266/4/5/311
We theoretically investigate polarization properties of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and influence of decoherence induced by environment on BEC polarization through introducing four BEC Stokes operators which are quantum analog of the classical Stokes parameters for a light field. BEC polarization states can be geometrically described by a Poincar\'{e} sphere defined by expectation values of BEC Stokes operators. Without decoherence, it is shown that nonlinear inter-atomic interactions in the BEC induce periodic polarization oscillations whose periods depend on the difference between self-interaction in each component and inter-component interaction strengths. In particular, when inter-atomic nonlinear self-interaction in each BEC component equals inter-component nonlinear interaction, Stokes vector associated with Stokes operators precesses around a fixed axis in the dynamic evolution of the BEC. The value of the processing frequency is determined by the strength of the linear coupling between two components of the BEC. When decoherence is involved, we find each component of the Stokes vector decays which implies that decoherence depolarizes the BEC.
Hu Beilai
Kuang Le-Man
Li Jin-Hui
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