势阱中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚气体的势场有效性和粒子数极限判据

基于最小动量态上的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(简称BEC)，给出了指数吸引势场中超冷玻色原子气体的势场有效性和势阱中所装载的原子数目极限判据.此判据给出了当所装载的原子数确定时，所需要的势场强度；或势场给定时，所装载的原子数目的极限. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 临界温度 最小动量态     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚特性及其应用

本文介绍了北京大学建立的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚实验平台，实现了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚（图1），获得了原子数为五十万个，温度为50纳开尔文的玻色凝聚体。在此基础上我们精密测量了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的相变温度，还利用玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚实验平台通过马越让那跃迁获得了可控的多量子态玻色爱因斯坦凝聚体。并利用四种方法获得了原子激光（图2），其中有三种方法是国际上第一次使用。另外，我们提出了将玻色一爱因斯坦凝聚转入Magic光晶格阱，实现精度优于10^-17的新型原子钟的设想。     

Bessel型光晶格中双组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体的基态解

研究了平面Bessel型光晶格(BL)中双组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BECs)体系的基态解.从描述三维(3D)BECs体系的动力学方程Gross-Pitaevskii方程(GPE)出发,当垂直方向囚禁频率远大于平面上囚禁频率时,得到了描述2D-BECs体系的动力学方程.利用双组分BECs体系中原子之间相互作用与BL强度相互平衡的条件,得到了平面BL光晶格中2D-GPE的一组基态精确解,给出了基态的原子数分布,总原子数和能量与原子之间相互作用强度及BL势的关系.相对于单组分BEC体系,由于不同组分原子相互作用的存在,使得BL光晶格中双组分BECs基态具有更丰富的结构.当不存在不同组分原子之间的相互作用时,模型简化到单组分体系,并给出了相应的基态解,原子数分布和能量. 关键词： Bessel型光晶格 基态解 双组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚     

基于Gross-Pitaevskii能量泛函求解谐振势阱中玻色凝聚气体基态波函数

基于Gross-Pitaevskii(G-P)平均场能量泛函和变分方法，对囚禁在谐振势阱中的玻色凝聚气体，在T=0K时的基态波函数提出一种新解法.运用这一方法能得到基态波函数的解析表达式，求解出系统的化学势与凝聚原子数的关系等.其结果与Edwards和Dalfovo等人直接数值求解G-P方程所得到的结果相一致，并在Na_s/a1大原子数N的极限条件下，与托马斯-费米近似模型的结论也趋向一致.该方法计算简单，而且能够进行解析处理. 关键词： 玻色凝聚气体 G-P泛函 谐振势阱 基态波函数     

轴对称谐振势阱中玻色凝聚气体基态和单涡旋态解

对囚禁在轴对称谐振势阱中的玻色凝聚气体，提出一种新的试探波函数，运用Gross-Pitaevskii(G-P)平均场能量泛函和变分的方法，得到玻色凝聚气体基态和单涡旋态波函数的解析表达式，并计算出凝聚原子的平均能量、原子云轴向和径向尺度比，以及产生单涡旋态的临界角速度等重要物理量与凝聚原子数N之间的关系.其结果与Dalfovo等人直接数值求解G-P方程所得到的结果相一致. 关键词： 玻色凝聚气体 G-P泛函 波函数 谐振势阱     

囚禁弱相互作用玻色气体的势场优化准则

根据Thomas-Fermi近似,在基于最小动量态上玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的前提下,研究了囚禁弱相互作用玻色气体势场的最优化问题.导出了指数吸引势阱中有效势场和粒子数极限判据,粒子数给定时,可由此判据求出所需势场强度;势场强度给定时,可由此判据求出粒子数极限.根据吸引相互作用系统的稳定性以及求出的排斥相互作用的最大粒子数极限,结合有效势场判据,分别给出了囚禁吸引和排斥相互作用玻色气体时,势场强度的最佳取值范围. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 弱相互作用 粒子数极限 势场强度     

玻色-费米气体量子简并光学偶极阱的设计

实现了将预冷却(温度约为1～2μK)的87 Rb和40 K原子装载到远红失谐的光学偶极力阱中,继而利用逐步降低光强的方法对其进行蒸发冷却,获得了87 Rb原子的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC),并用协同冷却的方法得到了40 K原子的量子简并(DFG)。实验上通过光纤传输远红失谐激光束降低了光束指向性的抖动,又利用光强反馈伺服系统抑制远红失谐激光的强度抖动,提高了获得玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚和简并费米气体的重复性和稳定性。实验上得到玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的原子数达8.48×105个,简并费米气体的原子数量约为3.34×106个。     

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     

驱动场作用下二分量BEC中原子数密度的演化

运用数值模拟研究了二分量玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)原子数密度的动力学行为,讨论了驱动场耦合强度、不同分量间原子作用强度、射频场频率及同分量内原子作用强度对二分量原子数密度演化特性的影响.结果显示:原子数密度随时间近似作周期性振荡,其振荡的周期随驱动耦合场强度、不同分量原子间作用强度的增大而减小,随自耦合强度的增大而增大;射频场频率的变化并不显著改变原子数密度振荡的周期,但它的增大会和自耦合强度的增大一样导致原子密度振荡的振幅减小.     

磁光捕获冷原子和玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的研究进展

介绍了磁光捕获冷原子和玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的物理特性及相关发展和研究,阐述了如何通过实验得到磁光捕获和玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚,并介绍了相关仪器,详细说明了测量其温度及捕获的原子数量的方法.同时还介绍了插入光和磁场上移等获得玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的方法及红失谐和蓝失谐光如何捕获冷原子的研究.最后介绍了作者所做的研究:冷原子的快速压缩法和玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚的绝热捷径.     

Bose–Einstein condensation of lithium

7 Li has been studied in a magnetically trapped gas. Many-body quantum theory predicts that the occupation number of the condensate is limited to about 1400 atoms because of the effectively attractive interactions between ⁷Li atoms. Using a versitile phase-contrast imaging technique, we experimentally observe the condensate number to be consistent with this limit. We discuss our measurements, the current theoretical understanding of BEC in a gas with attractive interactions, and future experiments we hope to perform. Received: 4 June 1997     

Quantum tweezer for atoms

We propose a quantum tweezer for extracting a desired number of neutral atoms from a reservoir. A trapped Bose-Einstein condensate is used as the reservoir, taking advantage of its coherent nature, which can guarantee a constant outcome. The tweezer is an attractive quantum dot, which may be generated by red-detuned laser light. By moving at certain speeds, the dot can extract a desired number of atoms from the condensate through Landau-Zener tunneling. The feasibility of our quantum tweezer is demonstrated through realistic and extensive model calculations.     

Controlled collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate

The point of instability of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) due to attractive interactions was studied. Stable 85Rb BECs were created and then caused to collapse by slowly changing the atom-atom interaction from repulsive to attractive using a Feshbach resonance. At a critical value, an abrupt transition was observed in which atoms were ejected from the condensate. By measuring the onset of this transition as a function of number and attractive interaction strength, we determined the stability condition to be N(absolute value of a) / a(ho) = 0.459+/-0.012+/-0.054, slightly lower than the predicted value of 0.574.     

Quantum instability of a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interaction

We study the quantum and the mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate gas confined in a toroidal trap. According to GP, if the interatomic interaction is attractive, the rotational states of the system can be dynamically stable or unstable depending on the strength of the mean-field energy. The full quantum analysis, however, reveals that the condensate is always unstable. Quantum fluctuations are particularly important close to the GP stability borderline, even for systems with a relatively large number of condensate atoms.     

Stable 85Rb bose-einstein condensates with widely tunable interactions

Bose-Einstein condensation has been achieved in a magnetically trapped sample of 85Rb atoms. Long-lived condensates of up to 10(4) atoms have been produced by using a magnetic-field-induced Feshbach resonance to reverse the sign of the scattering length. This system provides new opportunities for the study of condensate physics. The variation of the scattering length near the resonance has been used to magnetically tune the condensate self-interaction energy over a wide range, extending from strong repulsive to large attractive interactions. When the interactions were switched from repulsive to attractive, the condensate shrank to below our resolution limit, and after approximately 5 ms emitted a burst of high-energy atoms.     

Explosion of a collapsing Bose-Einstein condensate

We show that elastic collisions between atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate with attractive interactions can lead to an explosion that ejects a large fraction of the collapsing condensate. We study variationally the dynamics of this explosion and find excellent agreement with recent experiments on magnetically trapped 85Rb. We also determine the energy and angular distribution of the ejected atoms during the collapse.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统中原子的空间混沌分布

研究了非对称周期势阱中玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚原子的空间混沌分布结构. 在凝聚体相位为常数的情况下, 凝聚体内部不存在原子流,凝聚原子的空间分布结构可以用一个无阻尼双驱动Duffing方程描述. 理论分析给出了原子间呈排斥作用系统的Mel'nikov混沌判据.数值模拟结果显示,化学势的增大能够对原子混沌分布产生明显的抑制作用,甚至使混沌完全消失. 对于原子间呈吸引作用的系统,在一定参数条件下,调节光格势强度比可以使凝聚原子由周期状态进入到空间混沌分布状态,随着化学势的增大这种空间混沌分布被完全抑制. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 Mel'nikov函数 混沌     

Metastability range of the Bose condensate in 7Li-fermion mixtures at T = 0

We evaluate the ground state of a mixture of bosons and spin-polarized fermions in the case of attractive boson-boson interactions, using a variational Ansatz for the Bose condensate wave function and the Thomas-Fermi approximation for the fermions in the mean field of the condensate. Within this approximation we show that the presence of the fermions tends to restrict the metastability range of the condensate, irrespectively of the sign of the boson-fermion interactions. Numerical illustrations are reported for mixtures of ⁷Li atoms with fermions having the ⁶Li mass.     

Density-matrix renormalization group study of trapped imbalanced Fermi condensates

The density-matrix renormalization group is employed to investigate a harmonically trapped imbalanced Fermi condensate based on a one-dimensional attractive Hubbard model. The obtained density profile shows a flattened population difference of spin-up and spin-down components at the center of the trap, and exhibits phase separation between the condensate and unpaired majority atoms for a certain range of the interaction and population imbalance P. The two-particle density matrix reveals that the sign of the order parameter changes periodically, demonstrating the realization of the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov phase. The minority spin atoms contribute to the quasicondensate up to at least P approximately 0.8. Possible experimental situations to test our predictions are discussed.