Two-mode theory of BEC interferometry

DOI10.1080/09500340600677682MaRDI QIDQ3429373zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors B. J. Dalton

Publication date 30 March 2007

Published in Journal of Modern Optics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0601012

zbMATH Keywords

Bose-Einstein condensatedouble-well potentialGross-Pitaevskii equationsymmetry breaking

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: A theory of BEC interferometry in an unsymmetrical double-well trap has been developed for small boson numbers, based on the two-mode approximation. The bosons are initially in the lowest mode of a single well trap, which is split into a double well and then recombined. Possible fragmentations into separate BEC states in each well during the splitting/recombination process are allowed for. The BEC is treated as a giant spin system, the fragmented states are eigenstates of S^2 and Sz. Self-consistent sets of equations for the amplitudes of the fragmented states and for the two single boson mode functions are obtained. The latter are coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. Interferometric effects may be measured via boson numbers in the first excited mode

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