玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中的怪波操控

利用Darboux变换法,解析地研究了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)中的怪波.结果表明:当谱参数等于非线性系数时,BEC中形成一种新型的单洞怪波;而当谱参数小于非线性系数时,BEC中出现双洞怪波.进一步地,怪波的出现位置可通过调节周期性势阱的驱动频率和强度来控制.此外,随着原子间相互作用的减小,怪波的最高幅度也随之降低.相关结果可为预防怪波的危害提供帮助.     

Observations on sound propagation in rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates

Repulsive laser potential pulses applied to vortex lattices of rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates create propagating density waves which we have observed experimentally and modeled computationally to high accuracy. We have observed a rich variety of dynamical phenomena ranging from interference effects and shock-wave formation to anisotropic sound propagation.     

生长及耗散波色-爱因斯坦凝聚中的怪波

利用达布变换法(Darboux transformation),解析的研究了生长及耗散波色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC)中的怪波.通过降维和无量纲化,将描述BEC的Gross-Pitaevskii (GP)方程转化成一维无量纲非线性薛定谔方程.利用达布变换,得到了一维非线性薛定谔方程的怪波解析解.根据解析结果,数值模拟了生长及耗散BEC中怪波的性质.结果表明,BEC中出现了一种典型的双洞怪波,并且BEC生长会延缓怪波的消失,而BEC的耗散会加速怪波的消失.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中的怪波操控

利用Darboux变换法, 解析地研究了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)中的怪波. 结果表明: 当谱参数等于非线性系数时, BEC中形成一种新型的单洞怪波; 而当谱参数小于非线性系数时, BEC中出现双洞怪波. 进一步地, 怪波的出现位置可通过调节周期性势阱的驱动频率和强度来控制. 此外, 随着原子间相互作用的减小, 怪波的最高幅度也随之降低. 相关结果可为预防怪波的危害提供帮助.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体中的怪波操控

利用Darboux变换法, 解析地研究了玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)中的怪波. 结果表明: 当谱参数等于非线性系数时, BEC中形成一种新型的单洞怪波; 而当谱参数小于非线性系数时, BEC中出现双洞怪波. 进一步地, 怪波的出现位置可通过调节周期性势阱的驱动频率和强度来控制. 此外, 随着原子间相互作用的减小, 怪波的最高幅度也随之降低. 相关结果可为预防怪波的危害提供帮助.     

Nonlocal quantum effects with Bose-Einstein condensates

We study theoretically the properties of two Bose-Einstein condensates in different spin states, represented by a double Fock state. Individual measurements of the spins of the particles are performed in transverse directions, giving access to the relative phase of the condensates. Initially, this phase is completely undefined, and the first measurements provide random results. But a fixed value of this phase rapidly emerges under the effect of the successive quantum measurements, giving rise to a quasiclassical situation where all spins have parallel transverse orientations. If the number of measurements reaches its maximum (the number of particles), quantum effects show up again, giving rise to violations of Bell type inequalities. The violation of Bell-Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequalities with an arbitrarily large number of spins may be comparable (or even equal) to that obtained with two spins.     

Matter rogue wave in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive atomic interaction

We investigate the matter rogue wave in Bose-Einstein condensates with attractive interatomic interaction analytically and numerically. Our results show that the formation of rogue wave is mainly due to the accumulation of energy and atoms toward to its central part; and the decay rate of atoms in unstable matter rogue wave can be effectively controlled by modulating the trapping frequency of external potential. The numerical simulation demonstrate that even a small periodic perturbation with small modulation frequency can induce the generation of a near-ideal matter rogue wave. We also give an experimental protocol to observe this phenomenon in Bose-Einstein condensates.     

二维玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中孤立波的调制不稳定性

研究了盘状势阱中二维玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC)的孤立波. 在平均场理论下, 由BEC所满足的Gross-Pitaevkii方程出发导出了二维BEC所满足的非线性Schrödinger方程. 从该方程出发, 研究单组分常振幅二维BEC(单组分常振幅 BEC)的调制不稳定性, 得到了该系统相应的增长率. 关键词： 孤子 不稳定性 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚     

Interaction effects on atomic laboratory trapped Bose-Einstein condensates

We discuss the effect of inter-atoms interactions on the condensation temperature T _c of an atomic laboratory trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that, in the mean-field Hartree-Fock and semiclassical approximations, interactions produce a shift Δ T _c /T _c ⁰ ≈ b ₁(a/λ _{T c} ) + b ₂(a/λ _{T c} )² + ψ[a / λ _{T c} ] with a the s-wave scattering length, λ _T the thermal wavelength and ψ[a / λ _{T c} ] a non-analytic function such that ψ[0] = ψ′[0] = ψ′′[0] = 0 and |ψ′′′[0]| = ∞. Therefore, with no more assumptions than Hartree-Fock and semiclassical approximations, interaction effecs are perturbative to second order in a / λ _{T c} and the expected non-perturbativity of physical quantities at critical temperature appears only to third order. We compare this finding with different results by other authors, which are based on more than the Hartree-Fock and semiclassical approximations. Moreover, we obtain an analytical estimation for b ₂ ? 18.8 which improves a previous numerical result. We also discuss how the discrepancy between b ₂ and the empirical value of b ₂ = 46 ± 5 may be explained with no need to resort to beyond-mean field effects.     

How to observe dipolar effects in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates

We propose an experiment which proves the possibility of spinning gaseous media via dipolar interactions in the spirit of the famous Einstein-de Haas effect for ferromagnets. The main idea is to utilize resonances that we find in spinor condensates of alkali atoms while these systems are placed in an oscillating magnetic field. A significant transfer of angular momentum from spin to motional degrees of freedom observed on resonance is a spectacular manifestation of dipolar effects in spinor condensates.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体Rosen-Zener跃迁中的多体量子涨落效应

研究了处于对称双势阱中玻色一爱因斯坦凝聚体Rosen—Zener跃迁过程的多体量子涨落效应,分析了末态平均布居数差与扫描周期的关系．线性情况下,得到了末态平均布居数差关于扫描周期的解析表达式,该结果与平均场下的结果完全一致,并利用数值方法进行了验证．非线性情况下,通过数值计算发现,快速扫描时末态平均布居数差与平均场情况下的结果符合比较好;然而绝热扫描时与平均场情况却有着很大的不同：末态平均布居数差随扫描周期的变化不再是平均场情况下的方波形式而是类似于正弦型的振荡,而且振荡周期会随着粒子数Ⅳ以及非线性参数c的增加而增大．     

Quasi-Nambu-Goldstone modes in Bose-Einstein condensates

We show that quasi-Nambu-Goldstone (NG) modes, which play prominent roles in high energy physics but have been elusive experimentally, can be realized with atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. The quasi-NG modes emerge when the symmetry of a ground state is larger than that of the Hamiltonian. When they appear, the conventional vacuum manifold should be enlarged. Consequently, topological defects that are stable within the conventional vacuum manifold become unstable and decay by emitting the quasi-NG modes. Contrary to conventional wisdom, however, we show that the topological defects are stabilized by quantum fluctuations that make the quasi-NG modes massive, thereby suppressing their emission.     

Photon-photon gates in Bose-Einstein condensates

It has recently been shown that light can be stored in Bose-Einstein condensates for over a second. Here we propose a method for realizing a controlled phase gate between two stored photons. The photons are both stored in the ground state of the effective trapping potential inside the condensate. The collision-induced interaction is enhanced by adiabatically increasing the trapping frequency and by using a Feshbach resonance. A controlled phase shift of π can be achieved in 1 s or less.     

Bose-Einstein condensates in rotating lattices

Strongly interacting bosons in a two-dimensional rotating square lattice are investigated via a modified Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. Such a system corresponds to a rotating lattice potential imprinted on a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. Second-order quantum phase transitions between states of different symmetries are observed at discrete rotation rates. For the square lattice we study, there are four possible ground-state symmetries.     

Spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

We propose an experimental scheme to create spin-orbit coupling in spin-3 Cr atoms using Raman processes. By employing the linear Zeeman effect and optical Stark shift, two spin states within the ground electronic manifold are selected, which results in a pseudospin-1/2 model. We further study the ground state structures of a spin-orbit-coupled Cr condensate. We show that, in addition to the stripe structures induced by the spin-orbit coupling, the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction gives rise to the vortex phase, in which a spontaneous spin vortex is formed.     

Effect of light assisted collisions on matter wave coherence in superradiant Bose-Einstein condensates

We investigate experimentally the effects of light assisted collisions on the coherence between momentum states in Bose-Einstein condensates. The onset of superradiant Rayleigh scattering serves as a sensitive monitor for matter-wave coherence. A subtle interplay of binary and collective effects leads to a profound asymmetry between the two sides of the atomic resonance and provides far bigger coherence loss rates for a condensate bathed in blue detuned light than previously estimated. We present a simplified quantitative model containing the essential physics to explain our experimental data and point at a new experimental route to study strongly coupled light matter systems.     

Bose-Einstein condensates in strongly disordered traps

A Bose-Einstein condensate in an external potential consisting of a superposition of a harmonic and a random potential is considered theoretically. From a semiquantitative analysis we find the size, shape, and excitation energy as a function of the disorder strength. For positive scattering length and sufficiently strong disorder the condensate decays into fragments each of the size of the Larkin length L. This state is stable over a large range of particle numbers. The frequency of the breathing mode scales as 1/L(2). For negative scattering length a condensate of size L may exist as a metastable state. These findings are generalized to anisotropic traps.     

Mesoscopic molecular ions in Bose-Einstein condensates

We study the possible formation of large (mesoscopic) molecular ions in an ultracold degenerate bosonic gas doped with charged particles (ions). We show that the polarization potentials produced by the ionic impurities are capable of capturing hundreds of atoms into loosely bound states. We describe the spontaneous formation of these hollow molecular ions via phonon emission and suggest an optical technique for coherent stimulated transitions of condensate atoms into a specific bound state. These results open up new possibilities for manipulating tightly confined ensembles.     

Uniting Bose-Einstein condensates in optical resonators

The relative phase of two initially independent Bose-Einstein condensates can be laser cooled to unite the two condensates by putting them into a ring cavity and coupling them with an internal Josephson junction. First, we show that this phase cooling process already appears within a semiclassical model. We calculate the stationary states, find regions of bistable behavior, and suggest a Ramsey-type experiment to measure the buildup of phase coherence between the condensates. We also study quantum effects and imperfections of the system.