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arXiv:1112.0837 · Physical Review A

Quantum entangled ground states of two spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

Zhi-Fang Xu, Rong Lü, Li You

Published Dec 27, 2011• 13 citations
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Abstract

We revisit in detail the non-mean-field ground-state phase diagram for a binary mixture of spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates including quantum fluctuations. The noncommuting terms in the spin-dependent Hamiltonian under the single-spatial-mode approximation make it difficult to obtain exact eigenstates. Utilizing spin-z-component conservation and total spin angular momentum conservation, we numerically derive information on the building blocks and evaluate the von Neumann entropy to quantify the ground states. The mean-field phase boundaries are found to remain largely intact, yet the ground states show fragmented and entangled behaviors within large parameter spaces of interspecies spin-exchange and singlet-pairing interactions.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.84.063634

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