Physical Review A
Many-body selective destruction of tunneling in a bosonic junction
Stefano Longhi
Abstract
A scheme for selective coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT) of strongly interacting bosons in a symmetric double-well potential, in which an arbitrarily and a priori prescribed number of bosons are allowed to tunnel from one well to the other one is theoretically proposed. As compared to the many-body CDT scheme recently proposed by Gong, Molina, and H\"anggi [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 133002 (2009)] and based on a fast modulation of the self-interaction strength, the method suggested in this work exploits the traditional method of fast modulation of the energy level unbalance between the two wells by an external ac force.