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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Spin Evolution of 87Rb Bose–Einstein Condensates with Zero Polarization

Zhifeng Chen, Bao Cheng-guang, Zhibing Li

Published Oct 26, 2009• 4 citations
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Abstract

The spin mixing dynamics of spin-1 Bose–Einstein condensates with zero magnetization and under an external magnetic field is investigated in a systematic way. Beyond the mean field theory, the time-dependent solutions of the Hamiltonian under the single mode approximation are obtained via a procedure of diagonalization. Thereby the time-dependent populations of spin-0 component starting from various initial states are obtained and analyzed. The features of evolution are compared in detail with those with the field removed so as to emphasize the effect of the field. Since the solutions are exact for the Hamiltonian, we can study the long-term behavior of the evolution, where periodicity and inherent symmetry emerge. In particular, some special cases are found in which the evolution is highly sensitive to the field, very strong oscillation in population can be thereby induced. A new mode of oscillation of the population characterized by having two frequencies, one is high and one is low, is found when the field is sufficiently strong.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.78.114002

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