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Annalen der Physik

BEC Dynamics in a Double‐Well with Interferometric Feedback

V. A. Tomilin, Leonid V. Il'ichov

Published Mar 31, 2016• 5 citations
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Abstract

The feedback control scheme for a Bose‐Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double‐well trapping potential located in one arm of Mach‐Zehnder interferometer (MZI) is investigated. The off‐resonant light beam performs the phase probing in one of the wells, thus creating information about the number of atoms in this well. The parameters of the trapping potential are controlled via a feedback loop based on the measured output of the MZI. The problem is analyzed in the framework of master equations for hybrid quantum‐classical systems. Significant modifications of the stationary distribution of atoms over the wells are predicted. These distributions can effectively be controlled by the tunable phase shift in the other arm of the MZI.

DOI
10.1002/andp.201500313

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Abstract We consider the problem of decoherence in a Bose – Einstein condensate (BEC) of noninteracting atoms during interferometric probing with a classical monochromatic external field. The condensate is located in one of the arms of the Mach – Zehnder interferometer, while part of the radiation from the interferometer output is fed back to the input, thereby closing the coherent feedback loop. A more general setting of the problem is also considered, in which the condensate is located in a system of interferometers ‘nested’ into each other, while part of the output radiation of each of them is also fed back to its input, closing the so-called multiloop feedback. The possibility of effective control of decoherence rates of various matrix elements is shown. The application of feedback of the proposed type to BEC in a double-well potential is investigated. It is found that this feedback allows efficient control of the distribution of atoms between the wells.
We propose a novel method for controlling quantum systems via feedback. Rather than modifying parameters of the controlled system, the feedback loop changes the way it interacts with environment (the unraveling of the quantum operation describing this interaction). As an example, a problem of controlling the state of two-mode atomic Bose–Einstein condensate, with one mode subject to interferometric phase-contrast imaging in the Mach–Zehnder interferometer is considered. Different unravelings of photodetection operation are implemented by varying the phase shift in the condensate-free arm of the interferometer. A master equation governing the evolution of the condensate is derived. Based on its steady-state solution, the Kullback–Leibler divergence between the atomic distributions with and without feedback is calculated. The results show that this divergence reaches maximum at non-trivial values of the parameters controlling unraveling.
This work presents a numerical study of a tunnelingbased interferometer implemented using a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in a static double-well potential, where the condensate dynamics are simulated using the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation to capture the essential mean-field behavior. By carefully configuring the central barrier parameters, the double well is engineered to act as a coherent matterwave beam splitter. A relative phase is introduced between the two arms of the interferometer, enabling the extraction of phase information through interference. We analyze the resulting interference contrast to determine the best barrier configurations that allow the system to function effectively as an interferometer. It was found that the interferometric contrast remains robust under realistic fluctuations in the barrier parameters, confirming experimental feasibility. Using a fixed barrier for both the splitting and recombination steps, we avoid the need to dynamically ramp the barrier, as in other approaches. This allows us to realize a simple and experimentally accessible interferometry scheme in the double-well potential.
We present a novel feedback control method for quantum systems. Feedback does not affect the controlled system itself. Instead, it controls the unravelling of the quantum channel of interaction between the system and its environment. This interaction can be represented as a history of events. If their informational content is changed, their back-action on the system is also modified. Feedback action is trigged by the events, thus granting the system the degree of control over its own state. The efficiency of the proposed scheme is demonstrated on the example of two-mode atomic Bose-Einstein condensate, with one of its modes subject to phase-contrast imaging in a Mach–Zehnder interferometer. The histories of photocounts in the output channels of the interferometer are used for feedback. Its capabilities of state engineering are studied for different settings of the feedback loop and different numbers of events in the recorded histories.
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