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arXiv:1308.6376 · Physical Review A

Quench dynamics of a strongly interacting resonant Bose gas

Xiao Ling Yin, Leo Radzihovsky

Published Dec 6, 2013• 48 citations
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Abstract

We explore the dynamics of a Bose gas following its quench to a strongly interacting regime near a Feshbach resonance. Within a self-consistent Bogoliubov analysis we find that after the initial condensate-quasiparticle Rabi oscillations, at long time scales the gas is characterized by a nonequilibrium steady-state momentum distribution function, with depletion, condensate density, and contact that deviate strongly from their corresponding equilibrium values. These are in a qualitative agreement with recent experiments on ${}^{85}$Rb by Makotyn et al. Our analysis also suggests that for sufficiently deep quenches close to the resonance the nonequilibrium state undergoes a phase transition to a fully depleted state, characterized by a vanishing condensate density.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.88.063611

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Yin and Radzihovsky [X. Yin and L. Radzihovsky, Phys. Rev. A 88, 063611 (2013)] recently developed a self-consistent extension of a Bogoliubov theory, in which the condensate number density nc{n}_{c}nc​ is treated as a mean field that changes with time, in order to analyze a JILA experiment by Makotyn et al. [P. Makotyn et al., Nat. Phys. 10, 116 (2014)] on a 85Rb^{85}\mathrm{Rb}85Rb Bose gas following a deep quench to a large scattering length. We apply this theory to construct a closed set of equations that highlight the role of ${\stackrel{\ifmmode \dot{}\else \.{}\fi{}}{n}}_{c}$, which is to induce an effective interaction between quasiparticles. We show analytically that such a system supports a steady state characterized by a constant condensate density and a steady but periodically changing momentum distribution, whose time average is described exactly by the generalized Gibbs ensemble. We discuss how the ${\stackrel{\ifmmode \dot{}\else \.{}\fi{}}{n}}_{c}$-induced effective interaction, which cannot be ignored on the grounds of the adiabatic approximation for modes near the gapless Goldstone mode, can significantly affect condensate populations and Tan's contact for a Bose gas that has undergone a deep quench.
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