Stability and Chaos of Two Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates with Three-Body Interaction

We study the dynamics of two Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) tunnel-coupled by a double-well potential.A real three-body interaction term is considered and a two-mode approximation is used to derive two coupled equations,which describe the relative population and relative phase. By solving the equations and analyzing the stability of the system, we find the stable stationary solutions for a constant atomic scattering length. When a periodically time-varying scattering length is applied, Melnikov analysis and numerical calculation demonstrate the existence of chaotic behavior and the dependence of chaos on the three-body interaction parameters.     

计及两体和三体作用下的二维凝聚体中的孤子特性

使用多重尺度法,解析地研究计及粒子间两体和三体同时作用下二维凝聚体中孤子的特性. 结果发现,当凝聚体粒子间两体作用为排斥、三体作用为吸引时,凝聚体内会产生暗孤子环,且随着三体吸引作用的减弱,暗孤子环中心峰的高度逐渐降低,并当三体吸引作用消失时暗孤子环演化为一个完美的二维暗孤子. 当两体和三体作用均为排斥时,凝聚体中的暗孤子的宽度和幅度随着三体排斥作用的加强而减小,且当三体作用强度增加到与两体作用同一数量级时,凝聚体产生坍塌现象. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体 两体和三体作用 暗孤子     

Wave Trains Generation in a Delayed Nonlinear Response of Bose-Einstein Condensates with Three-Body Interactions

We investigate the modulational instability of matter-wave condensates in a modified Gross-Pitaevskii equation which takes into account effects of the three-body interaction. This three-body interaction consists of a quintic term and an additional one representing the delayed nonlinear response of condensates which are trapped both in an attractive and a repulsive harmonic potentials. Our theoretical study uses a modified lens-type transformation and we obtain a modulational instability criterion, and an explicit growth rate. We show that the presence of the three-body interaction destabilizes the condensate, and enhances the appearance of instability in the condensate. Numerical experiments agree well with analytical predictions. Furthermore, our numerical simulations show that the three-body interaction modifies the symmetry of the trail of soliton chains created. The expulsive potential enhances the instability, while the attractive potential appears to soften the instability.     

Stability and Collective Excitation of Two-Dimensional BECs with Two- and Three-Body Interactions in an Anharmonic Trap

The stability and collective excitation of Bose-Einstein condensates with both two- and three-body interactions in a two-dimensional anhaxmonic trap （i.e., harmonic plus quartic trap） are investigated. By using the variational method, the influence of the three-body interaction and the anharmonicity on the stability axe discussed in detail. It is found that the anhaxmonicity of the trap and the three-body interaction have significant effect on the stability and collective excitations of the system.     

Effects of three-body interaction on collective excitation and stability of Bose--Einstein condensate

This paper investigates the collective excitation and stability of low-dimensional Bose--Einstein condensates with two- and three-body interactions by the variational analysis of the time-dependent Gross--Pitaevskii--Ginzburg equation. The spectrum of the low-energy excitation and the effective potential for the width of the condensate are obtained. The results show that: (i) the repulsive two-body interaction among atoms makes the frequency red-shifted for the internal excitation and the repulsive or attractive three-body interaction always makes it blue-shifted; (ii) the region for the existence of the stable bound states is obtained by identifying the critical value of the two- and three-body interactions.     

Stabilization of trapless Bose-Einstein condensates without any management

In higher dimensions, so far, both attractive and repulsive trapless Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have been stabilized with the help of temporal or spatial management of the two-body contact interaction. However, in the absence of nonlinear management, up to now, there is no model to stabilize the repulsive, trapless BECs at higher dimensions. Hence, in the present study, we tried to stabilize the same and achieved with help of the interplay between three-body and higher-order interactions. In addition, we show that there is an enhancement of the stability of attractive, trapless BECs due to the inclusion of the higher-order interaction along with the two- and three-body interactions. Further, our analytical predictions are corroborated with 4th order Runge-Kutta and split-step Crank-Nicholson numerical results.     

Spin squeezing in a bimodal condensate: spatial dynamics and particle losses

We propose an analytical method to study the entangled spatial and spin dynamics of interacting bimodal Bose-Einstein condensates. We show that at particular times during the evolution spatial and spin dynamics disentangle and the spin squeezing can be predicted by a simple two-mode model. We calculate the maximum spin squeezing achievable in experimentally relevant situations with Sodium or Rubidium bimodal condensates, including the effect of the dynamics and of one, two and three-body losses.     

Three-body problem in a dilute bose-Einstein condensate

We derive the explicit three-body contact potential for a dilute condensed Bose gas from microscopic theory. The three-body coupling constant exhibits the general form predicted by Wu [Phys. Rev. 115, 1390 (1959)]] and is determined in terms of the amplitudes of two- and three-body collisions in vacuum. In the present form, the coupling constant becomes accessible to quantitative studies which should provide the crucial link between few-body collisions and the stability of condensates with attractive two-body forces.     

Matter-wave solutions of Bose—Einstein condensates with three-body interaction in linear magnetic and time-dependent laser fields

We construct, through a further extension of the tanh-function method, the matter-wave solutions of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with a three-body interaction. The BECs are trapped in a potential comprising the linear magnetic and the time-dependent laser fields. The exact solutions obtained include soliton solutions, such as kink and antikink as well as bright, dark, multisolitonic modulated waves. We realize that the motion and the shape of the solitary wave can be manipulated by controlling the strengths of the fields.     

玻色爱因斯坦凝聚体中杂质的相互作用

文章研究了两个杂质浸入玻色凝聚体中的相互作用.通过使用微扰法,计算了在弱杂质-玻色子相互作用区域中的基态能量.结果表明基态能量与两杂质之间的相对距离有关.从基态能量出发,研究发现不管杂质与玻色子相互作用是处在排斥状态还是吸引状态,两杂质之间都有保持吸引趋势;而当一个杂质与玻色子相互作用是吸引时,另一个为排斥时,两个杂质之间呈现出了排斥的效果.通过杂质之间有效力的计算也验证了上述现象,进一步研究凝聚体密度背后的力学机制,再次得出了一致结论.     

Vortex lattices in planar Bose-Einstein condensates with dipolar interactions

In this Letter, we investigate the effects of dipole-dipole interactions on the vortex lattices in fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. For single planar condensate, we show that the triangular lattice structure will be unfavorable when the s-wave interaction is attractive and exceeds a critical value. It will first change to a square lattice, and then become more and more flat with the increase of s-wave attraction, until the collapse of the condensate. For an array of coupled planar condensates, we discuss how the dipole-dipole interactions between neighboring condensates compete with quantum tunneling processes, which affects the relative displacement of two neighboring vortex lattices and leads to the loss of phase coherence between different condensates.     

Instability domain of Bose–Einstein condensates with quantum fluctuations and three-body interactions

Through a Gross–Pitaevskii equation comprising cubic, quartic, residual, and quintic nonlinearities, we examine the modulational instability (MI) of Bose–Einstein condensates at higher densities in the presence of quantum fluctuations. We obtain an explicit time-dependent criteria for the MI and the instability domains of the condensates. Solitons are generated by suitably exciting the MI, and their stability is analyzed. We find that quantum fluctuations can completely change the instability of condensates by reversing the nature of the effective two-body interactions. The interplay between three-body interactions and quantum fluctuations is shown. Numerical simulations performed agree with analytical predictions.     

Quantum Statistical Properties in Two—Species Bose—Einstein Condensates

We have studied quantum statistical properties in a zero-temperature two-species Bose-Einstein condensate system in the presence of the nonlinear self-interaction of each species,the interspecies nonlinear interaction,and the Jisephson-like tunneling interaction.It is found that the two condensates may periodically exhibit sub-Poissonian distribution.It is revealed that the correlation between the two condensates can be nonclassical,which means that there exists a violation of Cauchy-Schwartz inequality.The nonclassical effect about the correlation between the two condensates can be realized experimentally by properly preparing the total number of atoms in the two condensates.     

Plasmon-mediated interaction between physically adsorbed atoms — curvature effect

The quantum-mechanical formulation of the non-retarded interaction of a single atom with a metallic surface is extended to the study of two neighboring atoms in the presence of a metallic surface. The atoms are represented as fluctuating three-dimensional oscillators, whereas the metal gives a dynamical response through the interaction of the surface plasma oscillations with the external fluctuating dipole. In the total energy balance, one finds, besides the two-body atom-atom and atom-surface interactions, a three-body contribution arising from the surface mediated atom-atom interaction. The flat-surface case is first treated to illustrate how this plasmon-mediated interaction takes place. Then for the general case of two atoms in presence of a curved surface, the three-body interaction term is evaluated. Application is made to the case of a surface having the shape of a spherical particle or a spherical cavity. Numerical evaluation for the case of two argon atoms on solid aluminium has been made in order to determine the relative importance of the modified lateral interaction and the dependence on the radius for the particle or the cavity configuration.     

Optical weak link between two spatially separated Bose-Einstein condensates

Two spatially separate Bose-Einstein condensates were prepared in an optical double-well potential. A bidirectional coupling between the two condensates was established by two pairs of Bragg beams which continuously outcoupled atoms in opposite directions. The atomic currents induced by the optical coupling depend on the relative phase of the two condensates and on an additional controllable coupling phase. This was observed through symmetric and antisymmetric correlations between the two outcoupled atom fluxes. A Josephson optical coupling of two condensates in a ring geometry is proposed. The continuous outcoupling method was used to monitor slow relative motions of two elongated condensates and characterize the trapping potential.     

Three-Body Recombination in Ultracold Systems: Prediction of Weakly-Bound Atomic Trimer Energies

The three-body recombination coefficient of an ultracold atomic system, together with the corresponding two-body scattering length a, allow us to predict the energy E₃ of the shallow trimer bound state, using a universal scaling function. The production of dimers in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates, from three-body recombination processes, in the regime of short magnetic pulses near a Feshbach resonance, is also studied in line with the experimental observation.     

Monte Carlo wavefunction approach to the dissipative quantum-phase dynamics of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

We investigate the relaxation effects on the dynamics of two-component dilute gas Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with relatively different two-body interactions and Josephson couplings between the two components. Three types of relaxation effects, i.e., one- and three-body losses and a pure phase relaxation caused by elastic two-body collision between condensed and noncondensed atoms, are examined on the dynamical behavior of a macroscopic superposition, i.e., Schr?dinger cat state, of two states with atom-number differences between the two components, which is known to be created by the time evolution in certain parameter regimes. Although three-body losses show a relatively large suppression of the revival behavior of Schr?dinger cat state and the Pegg-Barnett phase-difference distribution between the two components for a small-size Schr?dinger cat state, one- and three-body loss effects are not shown to directly depend on the size of Schr?dinger cat state. In contrast, the pure-phase relaxation effects, causing a reduction of phase-difference distribution and then decaying the Schr?dinger cat state, significantly increase with the increase of the size of Schr?dinger cat state. These features suggest that a detection of damped collapse-revival behavior is highly possible for medium-size Schr?dinger cat states in small-size two-component BECs.     

Double species Bose-Einstein condensate with tunable interspecies interactions

We produce Bose-Einstein condensates of two different species, 87Rb and 41K, in an optical dipole trap in proximity of interspecies Feshbach resonances. We discover and characterize two Feshbach resonances, located around 35 and 79 G, by observing the three-body losses and the elastic cross section. The narrower resonance is exploited to create a double species condensate with tunable interactions. Our system opens the way to the exploration of double species Mott insulators and, more in general, of the quantum phase diagram of the two-species Bose-Hubbard model.     

On the exchange repulsion between beryllium atoms

Assuming the wave functions for free atoms in the form of the closed-shell SCF determinants, the first-order interaction energy for a system of three ground-state beryllium atoms has been computed. The decomposition of two and three-body interaction energies into individual, intershell contributions has been proposed. The results show that only the electrostatic energy is well approximated by the interaction of outer shells. For the two and three-body exchange energies this approximation is reliable only in the region of small orbital overlap. It has also been found that the three-body contribution to the interaction energy is considerably greater than in the case of the interaction of helium atoms.     

Superfluidlike motion of vortices in light condensates

We demonstrate, through numerical simulations, the generation of stable vortex lattices in light condensates. This can be achieved by propagating several concentric laser beams with nested vortices of different topological charges in an optical material with a cubic-quintic nonlinearity. We have considered several initial conditions, and in all the cases the net topological charges of the resulting lattice is equal to the topological charge of the initial outer vortex. The lattice exhibits rotation similar to vortex motion in superfluids. These vortex arrays could be used to implement all-optical photonic crystal fibers. Our results also apply to Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of three-body elastic interactions.