Quantum entanglement and chaos in kicked two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

We study two-component Bose-Einstein condensates that behave collectively as a spin system obeying the dynamics of a quantum kicked top. Depending on the nonlinear interaction between atoms in the classical limit, the kicked top exhibits both regular and chaotic dynamical behavior. The quantum entanglement is physically meaningful if the system is viewed as a bipartite system, where the subsystem is any one of the two modes. The dynamics of the entanglement between the two modes in this classical chaotic system has been investigated. The chaos leads to rapid rise and saturation of the quantum entanglement. Furthermore, the saturated values of the entanglement fall short of its maximum. The mean entanglement has been used to clearly display the close relation between quantum entanglement and underlying chaos.     

Mean-field dynamics of spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Spin-orbit coupling (SOC), the interaction between the spin and momentum of a quantum particle, is crucial for many important condensed matter phenomena. The recent experimental realization of SOC in neutral bosonic cold atoms provides a new and ideal platform for investigating spin-orbit coupled quantum many-body physics. In this Letter, we derive a generic Gross-Pitaevskii equation as the starting point for the study of many-body dynamics in spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. We show that different laser setups for realizing the same SOC may lead to different mean-field dynamics. Various ground state phases (stripe, phase separation, etc.) of the condensate are found in different parameter regions. A new oscillation period induced by the SOC, similar to the Zitterbewegung oscillation, is found in the center-of-mass motion of the condensate.     

Anti-control of chaos in Bose-Einstein condensates

The spatial structure of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) loaded into an optical lattice potential is investigated. We suggest a method for generating chaos in BEC by modulating periodic signals to convert the regular states into chaotic states. The maximal Lyapunov exponent is calculated as a function of modulation intensity and modulation frequency respectively, and the chaotic orbits associated with the positive Lyapunov exponents.      

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement strategies in two-well Bose-Einstein condensates

Criteria suitable for measuring entanglement between two different potential wells in a Bose-Einstein condensation are evaluated. We show how to generate the required entanglement, utilizing either an adiabatic two-mode or a dynamic four-mode interaction strategy, with techniques that take advantage of s-wave scattering interactions to provide the nonlinear coupling. The dynamic entanglement method results in an entanglement signature with spatially separated detectors, as in the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.     

Classical chaos with Bose-Einstein condensates in tilted optical lattices

A widely accepted definition of "quantum chaos" is "the behavior of a quantum system whose classical limit is chaotic." The dynamics of quantum-chaotic systems is nevertheless very different from that of their classical counterparts. A fundamental reason for that is the linearity of Schr?dinger equation. In this paper, we study the quantum dynamics of an ultracold quantum degenerate gas in a tilted optical lattice and show that it displays features very close to classical chaos. We show that its phase space is organized according to the Kolmogorov-Arnold-Moser theorem.     

对称双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统在周期驱动下的动力学相变及其量子纠缠熵表示

研究了在对称双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体系粒子间相互作用项上外加周期调制而引起的系统动力学相变,特别地研究了该系统通向混沌的相变过程.发现在一定驱动参数下,当外加调制频率与系统固有频率达到共振时,相平面会出现不稳定性现象,即混沌.在混沌区域,粒子在各量子态随机分布,平均布居数差在零附近波动.特别地,研究表明,混沌现象的出现可以用量子纠缠熵来表征,混沌现象出现时,两种平均纠缠熵都趋于它们的最大值. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 双势阱 混沌 纠缠熵     

Controlling chaos in the Bose-Einstein condensate system of a double lattice

We study the chaotic dynamics in the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) system of a double lattice. Chaotic space-time evolution is investigated for the particle number density in a BEC. By changing of the s-wave scattering length with a Feshbach resonance, the chaotic behavior can be well controlled to enter into periodicity. Numerical calculation shows that there is periodic orbit according to the s-wave scattering length only if the maximal Lyapunov exponent of the system is negative.     

对称双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统在周期驱动下的动力学相变及其量子纠缠熵表示

研究了在对称双势阱玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体系粒子间相互作用项上外加周期调制而引起的系统动力学相变，特别地研究了该系统通向混沌的相变过程.发现在一定驱动参数下，当外加调制频率与系统固有频率达到共振时，相平面会出现不稳定性现象，即混沌.在混沌区域，粒子在各量子态随机分布，平均布居数差在零附近波动.特别地，研究表明，混沌现象的出现可以用量子纠缠熵来表征，混沌现象出现时，两种平均纠缠熵都趋于它们的最大值.     

玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体自囚禁现象的动力学相变及其量子纠缠特性

研究了量子涨落对自囚禁现象的影响.采用玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体(BEC)两模模型进行研究，发现有限粒子BEC系统自囚禁现象的发生同样存在临界现象，但是由于量子涨落的影响使得这个临界现象变得模糊，并且粒子数越小量子涨落的影响越明显.为了更加明确地描述有限粒子系统的自囚禁现象，通过系统各态平均占有概率的熵(简称平均熵)和平均纠缠熵来刻画自囚禁现象，并讨论自囚禁现象发生前后系统的纠缠特性. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚(BEC) 自囚禁 纠缠熵     

Ferromagnetism in a lattice of Bose-Einstein condensates

We show that an ensemble of spinor Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a one-dimensional optical lattice can undergo a ferromagnetic phase transition and spontaneous magnetization arises due to the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction. This phenomenon is analogous to ferromagnetism in solid state physics, but occurs with bosons instead of fermions.     

Cosmological constant: a lesson from Bose-Einstein condensates

The cosmological constant is one of the most pressing problems in modern physics. We address this issue from an emergent gravity standpoint, by using an analogue gravity model. Indeed, the dynamics of the emergent metric in a Bose-Einstein condensate can be described by a Poisson-like equation with a vacuum source term reminiscent of a cosmological constant. The direct computation of this term shows that in emergent gravity scenarios this constant may be naturally much smaller than the naive ground-state energy of the emergent effective field theory. This suggests that a proper computation of the cosmological constant would require a detailed understanding about how Einstein equations emerge from the full microscopic quantum theory. In this light, the cosmological constant appears as a decisive test bench for any quantum or emergent gravity scenario.     

Bose-Einstein condensates near a microfabricated surface

Magnetically and optically confined Bose-Einstein condensates were studied near a microfabricated surface. Condensate fragmentation observed in microfabricated magnetic traps was not observed in optical dipole traps at the same location. The measured condensate lifetime was >or=20 s and independent of the atom-surface separation under both magnetic and optical confinement. Radio-frequency spin-flip transitions driven by technical noise were directly observed for optically confined condensates and could limit the condensate lifetime in microfabricated magnetic traps.     

SU(1,1)相干态与玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚相互作用系统中的量子纠缠

研究的系统为SU(1, 1)相干态和玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体相互作用体系,在双光子跃迁过程中,分别用量子约化熵和量子相对熵研究了该系统中的SU(1, 1)相干态与凝聚体间的纠缠以及SU(1, 1)相干态的模间纠缠,分析了光场初始压缩因子、原子间相互作用对场-凝聚体间纠缠和模间纠缠的影响。     

SU(1,1)相干态与玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚相互作用系统中的量子纠缠

研究的系统为SU(1, 1)相干态和玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚体相互作用体系,在双光子跃迁过程中,分别用量子约化熵和量子相对熵研究了该系统中的SU(1, 1)相干态与凝聚体间的纠缠以及SU(1, 1)相干态的模间纠缠,分析了光场初始压缩因子、原子间相互作用对场-凝聚体间纠缠和模间纠缠的影响。     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Stability of Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential

We investigate the stability of the first excited state, the so-called “π-state,” of Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential. From the condition of complex excitation energies, we determine the critical barrier height, above which the π-state is dynamically unstable. We find that the critical barrier height decreases monotonically as the number of condensate atoms increases. We also simulate the dynamics of the π-state by solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Our simulation results show that the π-state in the dynamically unstable region exhibits distinctively different behavior from that in the dynamically stable region.     

Propagation of Bose-Einstein condensates in a magnetic waveguide

Gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates of 2-3 x 10(6) 23Na atoms were loaded into a microfabricated magnetic trap using optical tweezers. Subsequently, the condensates were released into a magnetic waveguide and propagated 12 mm. Single-mode propagation was observed along homogeneous segments of the waveguide. Inhomogeneities in the guiding potential arose from geometric deformations of the microfabricated wires and caused strong transverse excitations. Such deformations may restrict the waveguide physics that can be explored with propagating condensates. Finer perturbations to the guiding potential fragmented the condensate when it was brought closer to the surface.