Atomic population oscillations between two coupled Bose——Einstein condensates with time-dependent nonlinear interaction

The atomic population oscillations between two Bose--Einstein condensates with time-dependent nonlinear interaction in a double-well potential are studied. We first analyse the stabilities of the system's steady-state solutions. And then in the perturbative regime, the Melnikov chaotic oscillation of atomic population imbalance is investigated and the Melnikov chaotic criterion is obtained. When the system is out of the perturbative regime, numerical calculations reveal that regulating the nonlinear parameter can lead the system to step into chaos via period doubling bifurcations. It is also numerically found that adjusting the nonlinear parameter and asymmetric trap potential can result in the running-phase macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST). In the presence of a weak asymmetric trap potential, there exists the parametric resonance in the system.     

The Atomic Tunneling Current in Two—Species Bose—Einstein Condensates

It is shown that the atomic tunneling current and the Shapiro-like steps strongly depend on the initial number of atoms in each condensate and the initial phase difference between the two condensates which are initially in even(odd) coherent states.The nonlinearity of interatomic interactions in the two condensates may lead to the atomic tunneling current and Shapiro-like step between the two condensates.It is found that the interatomic nonlinear interactions can induce the atomic tunneling current and Shapiro-like step between two condensates even though there does not exist the interspecies Josephson-like tunneling coupling.The static atomic tunneling current flows in positive or negative direction,which depends on the phase difference of the two-species condensates.     

Effect of Time-Dependent Atomic Scattering Length on Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates with a Complex Potential

We consider the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrǒdinger equations that describe the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein Condensates with time-dependent scattering length in a complex potential. Our results show that as long as the integrable relation is satisfied, exact solutions of the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrǒdinger equation can be found in a general closed form, and interactions between two solitons are modulated in a complex potential We find that the changes of the scattering length and trapping potential can be effectively used to control the interaction between two bright soliton.     

Superlattice Patterns in Coupled Turing Systems

In this paper, superlattice patterns have been investigated by using a two linearly coupled Brusselator model. It is found that superlattice patterns can only be induced in the sub-system with the short wavelength. Three different coupling methods have been used in order to investigate the mode interaction between the two Turing modes. It is proved in the simulations that interaction between activators in the two sub-systems leads to spontaneous formation of black eye pattern and/or white eye patterns while interaction between inhibitors leads to spontaneous formation of super-hexagonal pattern. It is also demonstrated that the same symmetries of the two modes and suitable wavelength ratio of the two modes should also be satisfied to form superlattice patterns.     

Fast Generation of GHZ States with Bose–Einstein Condensate in a Cavity

It is shown that strong coupling of Bose–Einstein condensates to an optical cavity can be realized experimentally. With an additional driven microwave field, we show that a highly nonlinear coupling among atoms in a Bose–Einstein condensate can be induced with the assistance of the cavity mode. With such interaction, we can investigate the generation of many body entangled states. In particularly, we show that multipartite entangled GHZ states can be obtained in such architecture with current available techniques.     

Dynamical Evolution and Entanglement in a Nonlinear Interacting System

We investigate a few features of entanglement of two types of particles coupled through a nonlinear interaction. It is shown that the entanglement created by the nonlinear interaction can reflect nonlinearity of the system. Possible observation of our prediction in a double-well trapped Bose-Einstein condensate is discussed.     

Photon bunching and anti-bunching with two dipole-coupled atoms in an optical cavity

We investigate the effect of the dipole–dipole interaction(DDI) on the photon statistics with two atoms trapped in an optical cavity driven by a laser field and subjected to cooperative emission. By means of the quantum trajectory analysis and the second-order correlation functions, we show that the photon statistics of the cavity transmission can be flexibly modulated by the DDI while the incoming coherent laser selectively excites the atom–cavity system's nonlinear Jaynes–Cummings ladder of excited states. Finally, we find that the effect of the cooperatively atomic emission can also be revealed by the numerical simulations and can be explained with a simplified picture. The DDI induced nonlinearity gives rise to highly nonclassical photon emission from the cavity that is significant for quantum information processing and quantum communication.     

Landau-Zener Tunnelling of Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

We investigate the Landau-Zener tunnelling of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates （BECs） in optical lattices. In the neighborhood of the Brillouin zone edge, the system can be reduced to two coupled nonlinear two-level models. From the models, we calculate the change of the tunnelling probability for each component with the linear sweeping rate. It is found that the probability for each component exhibits regular oscillating behavior for the larger sweeping rate, but for smaller rate the oscillation is irregular. Moreover, the asymmetry of the tunnelling between the two components can be induced by the unbalanced initial populations or the inequality of the two self-interactions when the cross-interaction between the components exists. The result can not be found in the single component BECs.     

Two-Dimensional Soliton Interaction for Multi-component Bose-Einstein Condensates

For two-component disk-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive atom-atom interaction, the small amplitude, finite and long wavelength nonlinear waves can be described by a Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-Ⅰ equation at the lowest order from the originai coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. One- and two-soliton solutions of the Kadomtsev- Petviashvili-1 equation are given, therefore, the wave functions of both atomic gases are obtained as well. The instability of a soliton under higher-order long wavelength disturbance has been investigated. It is found that the instability depends on the angle between two directions of both soliton and disturbance.     

One-dimensional nonparaxial bright solitons and their coherent interactions in Kerr media

<正>The existence of one-dimensional bright Kerr solitons is investigated in Kerr media beyond the paraxial approximation. It is found that a nonparaxial soliton with no less than a minimum dimensionless width of about 0.76 can exist, which corresponds to the real width about a wavelength.Besides,the coherent interactions between two nonparaxial bright solitons in Kerr media are also investigated in detail.It is found that their separation and intensity ratio have great influence on the coherent interaction between these two solitons.Furthermore,the effect of the relative phase difference on the nonparaxial interaction is quite different from that on the paraxial interaction.Periodical breath, merging,repulsion,and energy transferring can be realized separately by choosing an appropriate initial relative phase between the coherent solitons.     

Quantum Effects of Bose-Einstein Condensates

In this paper, we study quadrature squeezings of two Bose-Einstein condensates with collision and nonclassical properties of pair entanglement in four wave mixing in Bose-Einstein condensates. With the aid of a numerical method, we find that the two modes (pair entanglement modes) a₁ and a₂ may exhibit quadrature squeezing, in which they are affected by the initial phase. It is shown that the two pump modes exhibit the same super-Poissonian distribution. The analysis for the mode-mode correlation shows that there always exists a violation of the Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, which means that correlation between the two pump modes is nonclassical.     

Tunneling Dynamics of Two-Species Bose-Einstein Condensates

We have studied the tunneling dynamics of two-species Bose-Einstein condensates. It is shown that the population difference and the Josephson-like tunneling current between the two condensates exhibit oscillation behaviors and there exists macroscopic quantum self-trapping, which strongly depends on the initial state, interatomic nonlinear self-interaction, interspecies nonlinear interaction, and the total number of atoms in the two condensates.     

Statistical properties of four-mode quantum states in coupled optical parametric down-conversions

We study the quantum properties of four coupled parametric down-conversion processes which can be realized in an aperiodical nonlinear photonic crystal. In the interaction under consideration, each mode is created by two parametric processes. The photon statistics of particular modes and correlation functions for photon numbers and their fluctuations are studied in detail. It is shown that photon number correlations are nonclassical at small interaction lengths. We calculate the covariance matrix for continuous quantum variables of the generated modes and make use of the criterion of separability based on the partial scaling transform to reveal the entanglement between the variables. It is established that cluster entangled states are created in these coupled parametric processes.     

Atomic Tunnelling Dynamics of Two Squeezed Bose-Einstein Condensates

In this paper, tunnelling dynamics of squeezed Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC's) in the presence of the nonlinear self-interaction of each species, the interspecies nonlinear interaction, and the Josephson-like tunnelling interaction is investigated by using the second quantization approach. The influence of BEC squeezing on macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST) and quantum coherent atomic tunnelling is analyzed in detail. It is shown that the MQST and coherent atomic tunnelling between two squeezed BEC's can be manipulated through changing squeezing amplitude and squeezing phase of BEC squeezed states.     

Tunneling Dynamics Between Any Two Multi-atomic-molecular Bose-Einstein Condensates

Tunneling dynamics of multi-atomic molecules between any two multi-atomic molecular Bose-Einstein condensates with Feshbach resonance is investigated. It is indicated that the tunneling in the two Bose-Einstein condensates depends not only on the inter-molecular nonlinear interactions and the initial number of molecule in these condensates, but also on the tunneling coupling between them. It is discovered that besides oscillating tunneling current between the multi-atomic molecular condensates, the nonlinear multi-atomic molecular tunneling dynamics sustains a self-locked population imbalance: a macroscopic quantum self-trapping effect. The influence of de-coherence caused by non-condensate molecule on the tunneling dynamics is studied. It is shown that de-coherence suppresses the multi-atomic molecular tunneling.     

Two-Dimensional Soliton Interaction for Multi-component Bose-Einstein Condensates

For two-component disk-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive atom-atom interaction, the small amplitude, finite and long wavelength nonlinear waves can be described by a Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-I equation at the lowest order from the original coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. One- and two-soliton solutions of the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili-I equation are given, therefore, the wave functions of both atomic gases are obtained as well. The instability of a soliton under higher-order long wavelength disturbance has been investigated. It is found that the instability depends on the angle between two directions of both soliton and disturbance.     

Nonlinear tunneling and chaos between two Bose–Einstein condensates trapped in time-dependent potential

In this Letter, we discuss the macroscopic quantum self-trapping (MQST) and coherent atomic tunneling between two weakly coupled Bose–Einstein condensates confined in a time-dependent double-well trap. It is shown that the nonlinear interaction and the time-periodic external field can dramatically affect the MQST, lead to the high-order Bloch harmonics of the population imbalance, and periodic or chaotic behavior. We give out the onset point of chaos by Lyapunov exponent and the phase plots. It is found that the sudden change on the quasi-energy corresponds to the transition from libration to rotation.     

Band structure and dynamic behaviors of Bose-Einstein condensates in Fourier-Synthesized optical lattices

By employing a nonlinear three-mode model, we study the band structure of Bose-Einstein condensates in Fourier-Synthesized optical lattices, where the nonlinearity comes from the mean field treatment of interaction between atoms. In linear case, we present the band structure of the system. It is demonstrated that the energy band structure is strongly dependent on the value of relative phase of the two lattice harmonics. In the nonlinear case, we show that the eigenenergies as the functions of the quasi-momentum have a novel bowl structure in the middle energy level. It is found that there exist four critical values of interaction strength at which the band structure will undergo interesting changes. Furthermore, the stability of the eigenstate is also investigated.