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arXiv:2407.16109 · Physical Review A

Tunable nonlinear Landau-Zener tunnelings in a spin-orbit-coupled spinor Bose-Einstein condensate

Zhiqian Gui, Jin Dong Su, Hao Lyu, Yongping Zhang

Published Oct 11, 2024• 4 citations
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Abstract

Nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling is an important nonlinear phenomenon. We propose to stimulate the nonlinear tunneling in a spin-orbit-coupled spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. The system provides an experimentally tunable nonlinearity as well as multiple avoided crossings with tunable gap size in nonlinear dispersion relations. The nonlinearity generates tilted cusp and loop structures around the avoided crossings, and the physical consequence of these nonlinear structures is the nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling. The spin-momentum locking induced by the spin-orbit coupling leads to a time-resolved observation of the nonlinear tunneling by measuring atom populations.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.110.043314

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Nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling is an important nonlinear phenomenon. We propose to stimulate the nonlinear tunneling in a spin-orbit-coupled spinor Bose-Einstein condensate. The system provides an experimentally tunable nonlinearity as well as multiple avoided crossings with tunable gap size in nonlinear dispersion relations. The nonlinearity generates tilted cusp and loop structures around the avoided crossings, and the physical consequence of these nonlinear structures is the nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling. The spin-momentum locking induced by the spin-orbit coupling leads to a time-resolved observation of the nonlinear tunneling by measuring atom populations.
Single-particle dynamics of a spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensate has recently been investigated in experiments that explore the physics of Landau-Zener tunneling and of the Zitterbewegung. In this paper, we study the influence of a nonlinearity due to interactions on these dynamics and show that the dispersion relation develops interesting loop structures. The atoms can move along the nonlinear dispersion curve in the presence of a weak acceleration force, and we show that the loops lead to straightforward nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling. However, we find that for the Zitterbewegung, induced by a sudden quench in the spin-orbit-coupling parameters, the nonlinear dispersion is irrelevant.
The Landau-Zener (LZ) transition is one of the most fundamental phenomena in quantum dynamics. It describes nonadiabatic transitions between quantum states near an avoided crossing that can occur in diverse physical systems. Here we report experimental measurements and tuning of LZ transitions between the dressed eigenlevels of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) that is synthetically spin-orbit (SO) coupled. We measure the transition probability as the BEC is accelerated through the SO avoided crossing and study its dependence on the coupling between the diabatic (bare) states, eigenlevel slope, and eigenstate velocity---the three parameters of the LZ model that are independently controlled in our experiments. Furthermore, we performed time-resolved measurements to demonstrate the breaking down of the spin-momentum locking of the spin-orbit-coupled BEC in the nonadiabatic regime, and we determined the diabatic switching time of the LZ transitions. Our observations show quantitative agreement with the LZ model and numerical simulations of the quantum dynamics in the quasimomentum space. The tunable LZ transition may be exploited to enable a spin-dependent atomtronic transistor.
We theoretically study the band structure, tunneling dynamics, and tunneling probability of tunable spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates under the periodic driving of Raman coupling. The time-independent Floquet Hamiltonian is obtained in the high-frequency approximation. It is found that the periodic driving can effectively tune spin-orbit coupling and nonlinear interaction. The system is mapped to a standard nonlinear two-level model, and the critical condition for the appearance of the loop in energy band structure and the width of the loop are obtained analytically. When the interspecies atomic interaction is equal to the intraspecies atomic interaction, there is no loop. However, when the intraspecies atomic interaction is smaller (larger) than the interspecies atomic interaction, the loop appears in the lower (upper) energy band. In this case, both spin-orbit coupling and Raman coupling will suppress the appearance of loop. In particular, the critical condition for the appearance of loop structure can be controlled by adjusting external driving. We also study the tunneling dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate with tunable spin-orbit coupling. More importantly, by tuning the periodic driving, the tunneling dynamics of the system and the location of nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling can be controlled. We also find that the spin components of the system can be reversed. Finally, the Landau-Zener tunneling probability of the system is calculated. The research shows that the periodic driving can effectively change the tunneling probability of the system.
Abstract Spin–orbit (SO) coupling enriches the single-particle dispersion relation, inducing dramatic change of the ground state phase and non-equilibrium quantum dynamics. Here, the nonlinear energy spectrum and Landau–Zener (LZ) tunneling dynamics in helicoidal SO coupled Bose–Einstein condensates are studied. The interplay of atomic interactions and helicoidal SO coupling results in novel nonlinear energy spectrum and LZ tunneling dynamics. Two distinct helicoidal SO avoided crossing points in the energy spectrum are predicted, i.e. a normal avoided crossing point characterized with degenerate eigenenergies and non-degenerate eigenstates, and an abnormal avoided crossing point analogous to the exceptional point in non-Hermitian system characterized with both degenerate eigenenergies and eigenstates. When the effective atomic interaction beyond a threshold, normal and abnormal loops emerge at the corresponding crossing points successively. Particularly, by adjusting the system parameters (e.g. atomic interactions), the two avoided crossing points and loops can co-exist in different bands, and the two loops even collide and merge. When the atoms are accelerated and move adiabatically along the energy band, atoms can steadily cross the normal avoided crossing point and normal LZ tunneling dynamics takes place at the edge of the normal loop, while an abnormal LZ tunneling dynamics is excited successively at the abnormal avoided crossing point and the edge of the abnormal loop. The two avoided crossing points and loops result in distinct LZ tunneling dynamics. Furthermore, the helicoidal SO coupling induces spatial symmetry broken of energy band, resulting in nonreciprocal LZ tunneling, i.e. the tunneling probabilities for right-ward and left-ward sweeping are different. The novel energy spectrum and tunneling dynamics are further understood with the help of the evolution of fixed points in classical Hamiltonian phase space. We provide a theoretical evidence for experimental probing and manipulation of nonlinear dispersion relation and quantum tunneling dynamics in ultracold atomic gases.
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The influence of atomic interactions on time-dependent tunneling processes of Bose-Einstein condensates is investigated. In a variety of contexts the relevant condensate dynamics can be described by a Landau-Zener equation modified by the appearance of nonlinear contributions. Based on this equation it is discussed how the interactions modify the tunneling probability. In particular, it is shown that for certain parameter values, due to a nonlinear hysteresis effect, complete adiabatic population transfer is impossible however slowly the resonance is crossed. The results also indicate that the interactions can cause significant increase as well as decrease of tunneling probabilities that should be observable in currently feasible experiments.