光晶格中双组分偶极玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的调制不稳定性

利用线性稳定性分析的方法,对光晶格中双组分偶极玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(Bose-Einstein condensates,简称BECs)的调制不稳定性进行了研究.得到了光晶格中双组分偶极BECs原子系统调制不稳定性区域的分布与在位相互作用和由偶极-偶极相互作用所导致的格点间BECs相互作用之间的关系.结果显示,格点间BECs的相互作用对光晶格中双组分偶极BECs的调制不稳定性有较大的影响,这可为实际应用中如何操控双组分偶极BECs提供有用的信息. 关键词： 光晶格 双组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体 调制不稳定性 偶极-偶极相互作用     

自旋轨道耦合诱导的调制不稳定性

原子玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的调制稳定性决定了凝聚体的超流属性,是超冷原子物理研究的重要内容。在由拉曼光形成的自旋轨道耦合的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中,存在4种不同的零动量本征态,由于自旋轨道耦合的存在,其中两种态载有流,另两种态不载流。通过对它们进行调制稳定性分析,发现无论在什么参数空间,这4种态都是调制不稳定的,即自旋轨道耦合总是能够诱导出调制不稳定性。这些态的动力学演化揭示调制不稳定性能够产生复杂的图案。     

变分法研究二维光晶格中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的调制不稳定性

利用含时变分法研究了二维光晶格中准二维玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中的调制不稳定性. 在平均场近似下, 由准二维Gross-Pitaevskii方程出发, 利用变分法给出了调制波振幅和相位所满足的时间演化方程, 通过求解时间演化方程和能量分析法给出了发生调制不稳定性的条件, 决定于平面波振幅, 晶格强度, 调制波的波矢量和原子之间的两体相互作用.     

利用光晶格自旋链中磁振子的激发模拟有限温度下光子的动力学 Casimir 效应

研究了在静磁场诱导的磁偶极-偶极相互作用和外部激光场诱导产生的偶极-偶极相互作用下光晶格自旋链中磁振子激发的动力学特征. 文中选取了蓝失谐光晶格, 提出了等效温度的概念, 并将系统中磁振子的激发过程与光学振动腔中光子的激发过程进行了类比. 研究表明, 通过选取适当的系统参数, 可以在磁振子系统中重现有限温度下光子的动力学Casimir效应. 关键词： 光晶格 偶极－偶极相互作用 磁振子 Casimir效应     

非旋波近似下两纠缠原子的纠缠特性

采用了相干态正交化法研究了耦合强度以及偶极相互作用对Tavis-Cummings模型中两原子的纠缠的影响.与旋波近似比较发现,在弱耦合强度下,非旋波近似下两原子间的纠缠与旋波近似下的结果符合得很好,在强耦合区,原子之间的纠缠出现了突然死亡现象.研究同时发现耦合强度越大,原子间处于可分离态的时间越长,表明了原子间处于退纠缠的时间的长短是依赖于原子-光场的耦合强度的.而考虑了偶极相互作用时,随着偶极-偶极相互作用的加强,原子间的纠缠也将被加强.     

非旋波近似下两纠缠原子的纠缠特性

采用了相干态正交化法研究了耦合强度以及偶极相互作用对Tavis-Cummings模型中两原子的纠缠的影响.与旋波近似比较发现,在弱耦合强度下,非旋波近似下两原子间的纠缠与旋波近似下的结果符合得很好,在强耦合区,原子之间的纠缠出现了突然死亡现象.研究同时发现耦合强度越大,原子间处于可分离态的时间越长,表明了原子间处于退纠缠的时间的长短是依赖于原子-光场的耦合强度的.而考虑了偶极相互作用时,随着偶极-偶极相互作用的加强,原子间的纠缠也将被加强.     

半无限深势阱中自旋相关玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的量子反射与干涉

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体与势垒或势阱的量子反射及干涉是考察宏观物质波奇特物性的最有效途径之一.利用传播子方法和基于冷原子实验广泛采用的飞行时间吸收成像方案,研究自旋相关玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体在半无限深势阱中的反射和干涉演化动力学,得到了自旋相关的凝聚体波函数的严格解析解.结果表明,当自旋相关光晶格关闭后,非局域于不同格点中相同自旋态的物质波在自由膨胀过程中发生量子干涉,形成了对比度明显的干涉条纹.与此同时,扩张的自旋相关物质波包与半无限深势阱壁相遇发生量子反射,反射波与入射波产生二重干涉,在密度分布两边对称的局部位置出现剧烈的振荡,干涉条纹表现出显著的调制效应.分析讨论了自旋态、相干输运距离和相对相位等因素对干涉条纹的影响.该研究有助于促进对自旋相关凝聚体宏观量子特性的认识,为深入检验自旋相关光晶格中凝聚体干涉的理论模型和物理机理提供依据和新方案.     

锶原子光晶格钟自旋极化谱线的探测

87Sr原子存在核自旋,在磁场作用下原子能级会分裂成不同塞曼子能级.通过光抽运对原子进行自旋极化,其自旋极化谱线的探测为锶光钟系统的闭环锁定提供精确的频率参考.本文对~(87)Sr原子钟跃迁能级5s~2~1S_0→5s5p~3P_0中的m_F=+9/2和m_F=-9/2的塞曼磁子能级自旋极化谱线进行了探测.经过一级宽带冷却和二级窄线宽冷却与俘获后,锶冷原子温度为3.9μK,原子数目为3.5×10~6.利用邻近"魔术波长"的813.426 nm半导体激光光源实现水平方向的一维光晶格装载.采用归一化探测方法用线宽为Hz量级的698 nm钟激光对~1S_0→~3P_0偶极禁戒跃迁进行探测,在150 ms的探测时间下获得线宽为6.7 Hz的钟跃迁简并谱.在磁光阱竖直方向施加一个300 mGs的偏置磁场获得塞曼分裂谱,并通过689 nm的圆偏振自旋极化光进行光抽运,最终在探测时间为150 ms时,获得左右旋极化谱线线宽分别为6.2 Hz和6.8 Hz.     

自旋相干态变换和自旋-玻色模型的基于变分法的基态解析解

提出一种基于自旋相干态变换求解自旋-玻色模型基态的变分法, 并将其用于单原子模型, 得到旋波近似和非旋波近似情形下的解析基态能量和波函数, 特别是在光场与原子的弱、强耦合区域都与数值对角化结果符合得很好. 另外, 该方法也可以直接用于求解任意原子数的Dicke模型基态和相应的量子相变研究, 而通常基于Holstein-Primakoff变换的变分法, 原则上只适用于原子数趋于无穷的热力学极限情形. 关键词： 自旋相干态 变分法 J-C模型     

偶极相互作用对自旋轨道耦合自旋-1凝聚体中磁畴分布的影响

研究准一维简谐势阱中存在自旋轨道耦合（SOC）的自旋-1偶极玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体,数值求解旋量Gross-Pitaevskii方程,给出磁畴的分布。计算结果表明：磁畴结构与偶极-偶极相互作用（DDIs）密切相关,随着自旋轨道耦合强度和磁化强度的增强,原来的空间对称分布被破坏,随之出现新的分布模式。     

Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices with Higher-Order Interactions

The higher-order interactions of Bose-Einstein condensate in multi-dimensional optical lattices are discussed both analytically and numerically.It is demonstrated that the effects of the higher-order atomic interactions on the sound speed and the stabilities of Bloch waves strongly depend on the lattice strength.In the presence of higher-order effects,tighter and high-dimensional lattices are confirmed to be two positive factors for maintaining the system's energetic stability,and the dynamical instability of Bloch waves can take place simultaneously with the energetic instability.In addition,we find that the higher-order interactions exhibit a long-range behavior and the long-lived coherent Bloch oscillations in a tilted optical lattice exist.Our results provide an effective way to probe the higher-order interactions in optical lattices.     

Collective excitations and instability of an optical lattice due to unbalanced pumping

We solve self-consistently the coupled equations of motion for trapped particles and the field of a one-dimensional optical lattice. Optomechanical coupling creates long-range interaction between the particles, whose nature depends crucially on the relative power of the pump beams. For asymmetric pumping, traveling density wavelike collective oscillations arise in the lattice, even in the overdamped limit. By increasing the lattice size or pump asymmetry, these waves can destabilize the lattice.     

Coherent collisional spin dynamics in optical lattices

We report on the observation of coherent, purely collisionally driven spin dynamics of neutral atoms in an optical lattice. For high lattice depths, atom pairs confined to the same lattice site show weakly damped Rabi-type oscillations between two-particle Zeeman states of equal magnetization, induced by spin-changing collisions. Moreover, measurement of the oscillation frequency allows for precise determination of the spin-changing collisional coupling strengths, which are directly related to fundamental scattering lengths describing interatomic collisions at ultracold temperatures.     

离子晶格非简谐振动引起的光学非线性与增强吸收型光双稳

处理了光场（电磁场）与离子晶体的非简谐性振动之间的相互作用问题。导出了用简正坐标即声子模式所表达的非线性晶格动力学和非线性宏观极化。在旋转波近似下，得到在入射光驱动下光子－声子耦合体系的总的相干性哈密顿算符。通过相应的静态方程证明该耦合系统会出现增强吸收型光学双稳性，这也就证明了光场与各种玻色子型固体元激发，如光频支声子和半导体中激子的非线性耦合可以作为增强吸收型光双稳的机制。     

Ground states, solitons and spin textures in spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates

We present an overview of our recent theoretical studies on the quantum phenomena of the spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates, including the phase diagram, soliton solutions and the formation of the topological spin textures. A brief exploration of the effects of spin-orbit coupling on the ground-state properties is given. We put forward proposals by using the transmission spectra of an optical cavity to probe the quantum ground states: the ferromagnetic and polar phases. Quasi-one-dimension solitons and ring dark solitons are studied. It is predicted that characteristics of the magnetic solitons in optical lattice can be tuned by controlling the long-range light-induced and static magnetic dipoledipole interactions; solutions of single-component magnetic and single-, two-, three-components polar solitons are found; ring dark solitons in spin-1 condensates are predicted to live longer lifetimes than that in their scalar counterparts. In the formation of spin textures, we have considered the theoretical model of a rapidly quenched and fast rotating trapped spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate, whose dynamics can be studied by solving the stochastic projected Gross-Pitaevskii equations. Spontaneous generation of nontrivial topological defects, such as the hexagonal lattice skyrmions and square lattice of half-quantized vortices was predicted. In particular, crystallization of merons (half skyrmions) can be generated in the presence of spin-orbit coupling.     

Absence of a spontaneous long-range order in a mixed spin-(1/2, 3/2) Ising model on a decorated square lattice due to anomalous spin frustration driven by a magnetoelastic coupling

The mixed spin-(1/2, 3/2) Ising model on a decorated square lattice, which takes into account lattice vibrations of the spin-3/2 decorating magnetic ions at a quantum-mechanical level under the assumption of a perfect lattice rigidity of the spin-1/2 nodal magnetic ions, is examined via an exact mapping correspondence with the effective spin-1/2 Ising model on a square lattice. Although the considered magnetic structure is in principle unfrustrated due to bipartite nature of a decorated square lattice, the model under investigation may display anomalous spin frustration driven by a magnetoelastic coupling. It turns out that the magnetoelastic coupling is a primary cause for existence of the frustrated antiferromagnetic phases, which exhibit a peculiar coexistence of antiferromagnetic long-range order of the nodal spins with a partial disorder of the decorating spins with possible reentrant critical behavior. Under certain conditions, the anomalous spin frustration caused by the magnetoelastic coupling is responsible for unprecedented absence of spontaneous long-range order in the mixed-spin Ising model composed from half-odd-integer spins only.     

On generation of coherent structures induced by modulational instability in linearly coupled cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equations

We study the properties of the coherent structures induced by the modulational instability (MI) of the two linearly coupled complex Ginzburg-Landau equations with both cubic and quintic terms, which in nonlinear optics can model ring lasers based on dual-core fibers. We obtain new stationary solutions different from the previous result and the analytic gain formula as function of the linear coupling constant and the model parameters. The fact that the system can be modulationally unstable for the vast region of the parameters space is demonstrated. The effects of the linear coupling constant on the evolution of a continuous wave under the MI are numerically investigated in the presence of the linear loss or gain. It is found that doubly asymmetric stable solitary pulses and stable breathers can be formed from the perturbed continuous waves state by the MI. The conditions for generating the periodic stable solitary pulses and fronts by the MI are identified by varying the linear coupling constant.     

Magnons interaction of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice

We study the interaction of magnons in dipolar spinor Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice. By means of Holstein-Primakoff and Fourier transformations the energy spectra of the ground and the excited states is obtained analytically. Our results show that the collision of magnons is elastic which is expressed by the conservation of wave numbers in the process of collision. At last, we found that the interaction of magnons is attractive which tends to self-localization to form spin waves, i.e., a cluster of a macroscopic number of coherent magnons. Because of the attraction, the instability of spin wave brings about the existence of solitary wave.     

Nonlinear nanoscale localization of magnetic excitations in atomic lattices

Reviewed here is the nonlinear intrinsic localization expected for large amplitude spin waves in a variety of magnetically ordered lattices. Both static and dynamic properties of intrinsic localized spin wave gap modes and resonant modes are surveyed in detail. The modulational instability of extended nonlinear spin waves is discussed as a mechanism for dynamical localization of spin waves in homogeneous magnetic lattices. The interest in this particular nonlinear dynamics area stems from the realization that some localized vibrations in perfectly periodic but nonintegrable lattices can be stabilized by lattice discreteness. However, in this rapidly growing area in nonlinear condensed matter research the experimental identification of intrinsic localized modes is yet to be demonstrated. To this end the study of spin lattice models has definite advantages over those previously presented for vibrational models both because of the importance of intrasite and intersite nonlinear interaction terms and because the dissipation of spin waves in magnetic materials is weak compared to that of lattice vibrations in crystals. Thus, both from the theoretical and the experimental points of view, nonlinear magnetic systems may provide more tractable candidates for the investigation of intrinsic localized modes which display nanoscale dimensions as well as for the future exploration of the quantum properties of such excitations.     

Spin waves in a Bose-Einstein--condensed atomic spin chain

The spin dynamics of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice is studied. The condensates at each lattice site behave like spin magnets that can interact with each other through both the light-induced dipole-dipole interaction and the static magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. We show how these site-to-site dipolar interactions can distort the ground-state spin orientations and lead to the excitation of spin waves. The dispersion relation of the spin waves is studied and possible detection schemes are proposed.