Temporal quantum fluctuations in the fringe-visibility of atom interferometers with interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

DOI10.1007/10091_2012_2zbMATH Open1273.81237arXiv1110.1956OpenAlexW3012066979MaRDI QIDQ2840966FDOQ2840966

Authors: Doron Cohen, Amichay Vardi 

Publication date: 24 July 2013

Published in: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We formulate a semiclassical approach to study the dynamics of coherence loss and revival in a Bose-Josephson dimer. The phase-space structure of the bi-modal system in the Rabi, Josephson, and Fock interaction regimes, is reviewed and the prescription for its WKB quantization is specified. The local density of states (LDOS) is then deduced for any given preparation from its semiclassical projection onto the WKB eigenstates. The LDOS and the non-linear variation of its level-spacing are employed to construct the time evolution of the initial preparation and study the temporal fluctuations of interferometric fringe visibility. The qualitative behavior and characteristic timescales of these fluctuations are set by the pertinent participation number, quantifying the spectral content of the preparation. We employ this methodology to study the Josephson-regime coherence dynamics of several initial state preparations, including a Twin-Fock state and three different coherent states that we denote as 'Zero', 'Pi', and 'Edge' (the latter two are both on-separatrix preparations, while the Zero is the standard ground sate preparation). We find a remarkable agreement between the semiclassical predictions and numerical simulations of the full quantum dynamics. Consequently, a characteristic distinct behavior is implied for each of the different preparations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1956

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70)

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