Control of unstable macroscopic oscillations in the dynamics of three coupled Bose condensates

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/28/285307zbMATH Open1178.82035arXiv0907.4314OpenAlexW3101431105MaRDI QIDQ5192099FDOQ5192099

Authors: Pierfrancesco Buonsante, Roberto Franzosi, V. Penna 

Publication date: 4 August 2009

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the dynamical stability of the macroscopic quantum oscillations characterizing a system of three coupled Bose-Einstein condensates arranged into an open-chain geometry. The boson interaction, the hopping amplitude and the central-well relative depth are regarded as adjustable parameters. After deriving the stability diagrams of the system, we identify three mechanisms to realize the transition from an unstable to stable behavior and analyze specific configurations that, by suitably tuning the model parameters, give rise to macroscopic effects which are expected to be accessible to experimental observation. Also, we pinpoint a system regime that realizes a Josephson-junction-like effect. In this regime the system configuration do not depend on the model interaction parameters, and the population oscillation amplitude is related to the condensate-phase difference. This fact makes possible estimating the latter quantity, since the measure of the oscillating amplitudes is experimentally accessible.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.4314

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zbMATH Keywords

dynamicsBose condensateunstable macroscopic oscillations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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