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.     

Evolution of spin-dependent atomic wave packets in a harmonic potential

We have investigated theoretically the evolution of spin-dependent atomic wave packets in a harmonic magnetic trapping potential. For a Bose-condensed gas, which undergoes a Mott insulator transition and a spin-dependent transport, the atomic wavefunction can be described by an entangled single-atom state. Due to the confinement of the harmonic potential, the density distributions exhibit periodic decay and revival, which is different from the case of free expansion after switching off the combined harmonic and optical lattice potential.     

Incomplete Erasure of Which-Way Information Encoded in Atomic Hyperfine States

We propose an experimental scheme to investigate incomplete erasure of which-way information encoded in atomichy perfine states. Due to the incomplete erasure of the which-way information, it is shown that the interference patterns of the atomic wave packets initially confined in a spin-dependent optical lattice are destroyed to a certain extent, which provides a new straight way to test further the validity of the theoretical model developed in our recent work. The remarkable merit of the proposal is that it is simple and can be implemented easily.     

Influence of the virtual photon field on the squeezing properties of atom laser

This paper investigates the squeezing properties of an atom laser without rotating-wave approximation in the system of a binomial states field interacting with a two-level atomic Bose--Einstein condensate. It discusses the influences of atomic eigenfrequency, the interaction intensity between the optical field and atoms,parameter of the binomial states field and virtual photon field on the squeezing properties. The results show that two quadrature components of an atom laser can be squeezed periodically. The duration and the degree of squeezing an atom laser have something to do with the atomic eigenfrequency and the parameter of the binomial states field, respectively. The collapse and revival frequency of atom laser fluctuation depends on the interaction intensity between the optical field and atoms. The effect of the virtual photon field deepens the depth of squeezing an atom laser.