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arXiv:1011.0394 · Physical Review A

Multistability in an optomechanical system with a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Ying Dong, Jinwu Ye, Han Pu

Published Mar 24, 2011• 39 citations
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Abstract

We investigate a system consisting of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate interacting dispersively with a Fabry-Perot optical cavity where the two components of the condensate are resonantly coupled to each other by another classical field. The key feature of this system is that the atomic motional degrees of freedom and the internal pseudospin degrees of freedom are coupled to the cavity field simultaneously, hence an effective spin-orbital coupling within the condensate is induced by the cavity. The interplay among the atomic center-of-mass motion, the atomic collective spin, and the cavity field leads to a strong nonlinearity, resulting in multistable behavior in both matter wave and light wave at the few-photon level.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.83.031608

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