Zero-mode fluctuations for two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

Андрій Сіжук, Anatoly A. Svidzinsky, Marlan O. Scully

Junichi Takahashi, Yuto Hayaki, Y. Yamanaka

Zero-mode operators associated with a spontaneous breakdown of internal symmetry are often suppressed and their quantum fluctuations are neglected owing to the absence of a definite criterion for determining the ground state and infrared divergences in physical quantities. Because the zero-mode fluctuations for systems with finite-size and spatially inhomogeneity cannot be neglected, we have proposed a novel treatment of the zero-mode for finite systems, which helps determine the unique ground state and evaluate the physical quantities without divergence. Following the proposed treatment, we consider trapped systems with two-component Bose–Einstein condensates. The results obtained demonstrate that the interaction strength between the two components considerably affect the dynamical properties, illustrating the importance of the zero-mode for finite systems.

Salvatore Butera, Iacopo Carusotto

We investigate the parametric amplification of the zero-point fluctuations in the spin modes of a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate, triggered by the dynamical evolution of the condensate density. We first make use of a Thomas-Fermi approximation to develop a tractable theoretical model of the quantum dynamics of the Bogoliubov excitations in a harmonically trapped condensate with a time-dependent trapping frequency. The predictions of this model are then compared to an ab initio numerical study of the correlation functions of density and spin fluctuations for general spatially inhomogeneous configurations. Results are shown for the two cases of expanding and oscillating condensates: while the quantum excitation of spin modes remains weak and relatively featureless in the case of an expanding condensate, clear and experimentally promising signatures of particle creation are anticipated for the oscillating case under suitable resonance conditions between the density and the spin modes.

D. Hellweg, S. Dettmer, Pasi Ryytty +8 more

Eunsil Baik

Sukla Pal, Arko Roy, D Angom

Abstract We present new features of low energy Bogoliubov quasiparticle excitations of a two-component Bose–Einstein condensate (TBEC) in quasi-2D geometry at zero temperature using Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov formalism. We, in particular, consider the TBECs of 133 Cs– 87 Rb and 85 Rb– 87 Rb, and show specific features in the low energy excitation spectrum as a function of the interaction strength. For 85 Rb– 87 Rb TBEC, the appearance of a new zero energy mode is observed. Whereas for 133 Cs– 87 Rb TBEC we report a bifurcation of the slosh mode at the point of transition from miscible to immiscible domain. The lower energy mode, after the bifurcation, goes soft and becomes a new Nambu–Goldstone mode of the system.