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Chinese Physics Letters

Coherent Photo-Association in Double-Well Bose–Einstein Condensates

Jing Hui, Mo‐Lin Ge, Yuzhu Wang

Published Dec 1, 2003• 2 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the quantum dynamics and statistics of an interesting system of the double-well Bose–Einstein condensates in the presence of a coherent photo-association process occurring in one of the two wells. Through the analytical solutions of a simplified model of the atom–molecule condensate, our results show the important impact of initial state preparations on the atomic coherence, especially the different squeezing behaviour for the case of photo-association via left-well atoms tunnelling from initial right-well atomic condensate, which holds the promise to be observed in the present laboratory.

DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/20/12/004

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A study of coherent photoassociation is presented for the case of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. It is shown that the phenomenon is analogous to coherent optical transient in a few-level system, with a difference that the participating levels have Bose enhanced populations. A second-quantized Hamiltonian in momentum and position representation is developed to describe photoassociation. A classical version of the field theory for atoms and molecules is used to demonstrate that in the presence of photoassociating light, a joint atom-molecule condensate is unstable against the growth of the density fluctuations. ^ A simple mean-field model of atom-molecule Bose-Einstein condensate is constructed and it is shown that in the model there is no collapse, irrespective of the sign of the effective atom-atom scattering length. The properties of the two most important eigenstates, the ground state and the twin state, are determined for different values of the system parameters δ and K, the detuning and the atom-molecule coupling, respectively. It is shown that in a coupled atom-molecule system a collapse is replaced by a dynamical instability. The lines in the parameter space where these instabilities occur are in fact fractures where the underlying eigenstates discontinuously change. The features of instability are in good qualitative agreement with the experimental observations of collapse. ^
Coherence dynamics of two-species Bose–Einstein condensates in double wells is investigated in the mean-field approximation. We show that the system can exhibit decoherence phenomena even without the condensate–environment coupling and the variation tendency of the degree of coherence depends not only on the parameters of the system but also the initial states. We also investigate the time evolution of the degree of coherence for a Rosen–Zener form of tunnelling strength, and propose a method to get a condensate system with a certain degree of coherence through a time-dependent tunnelling strength.