Interferencing in Coupled Bose–Einstein Condensates

We consider an exactly soluble model of two Bose–Einstein condensates with a Josephson-type of coupling. Its equilibrium states are explicitly found showing condensation and spontaneously broken gauge symmetry. It is proved that the total number and total phase fluctuation operators, as well as the relative number and relative current fluctuation operators form both a quantum canonical pair. The exact relation between the relative current and phase fluctuation operators is established. Also the dynamics of these operators is solved showing the collapse and revival phenomenon.     

Phase fluctuations in Bose–Einstein condensates

We demonstrate the existence of phase fluctuations in elongated Bose–Einstein condensates (BECs) and study the dependence of these fluctuations on the system parameters. A strong dependence on temperature, atom number, and trapping geometry is observed. Phase fluctuations directly affect the coherence properties of BECs. In particular, we observe instances where the phase-coherence length is significantly smaller than the condensate size. Our method of detecting phase fluctuations is based on their transformation into density modulations after ballistic expansion. An analytic theory describing this transformation is developed. Received: 13 July 2001 / Revised version: 28 September 2001 / Published online: 23 November 2001     

Stability of Attractive Bose–Einstein Condensates

We propose the critical nonlinear Schrödinger equation with a harmonic potential as a model of attractive Bose–Einstein condensates. By an elaborate mathematical analysis we show that a sharp stability threshold exists with respect to the number of condensate particles. The value of the threshold agrees with the existing experimental data. Moreover with this threshold we prove that a ground state of the condensate exists and is orbital stable. We also evaluate the minimum of the condensate energy.     

Quench Dynamics of Bose–Einstein Condensates in Boxlike Traps

By quenching the interatomic interactions, we investigate the nonequilibrium dynamics of two-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensates in boxlike traps with power-law potential boundaries. We show that ring dark solitons can be excited during the quench dynamics for both concave and convex potentials. The quench’s modulation strength and the steepness of the boundary are two major factors influencing the system’s evolution. In terms of the number of ring dark solitons excited in the condensate, five...     

Solitonic Diffusion of Wavepackets in One-Dimensional Bose–Einstein Condensates

Solitonic characteristics are revealed in the diffusion process of a hump or a notch wave packet in a one-dimensional Bose–Einstein condensate. By numerically solving the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation, we find completely different spreading behavior for attractive or repulsive condensates. For the attractive condensate, a series of bright solitons are continuously generated one after another at the wave front and they nearly stay at the positions where they are generated in the whole diffusion process. In contrast, for the repulsive condensate,the initial wave packet splits at the beginning into a series of grey solitons that travel at different velocities. The moving velocity of the grey soliton depends on nonlinear interaction strength, as well as the shape of a particular grey soliton.     

Quantum Squeezing of Matter-Wave Solitons in Bose–Einstein Condensates

We investigate the quantum squeezing of matter-wave solitons in atomic Bose–Einstein condensates. By calculating quantum fluctuations of the solitons via solving the Bogoliubov–de Gennes equations, we show that significant quantum squeezing can be realized for both bright and dark solitons. We also show that the squeezing efficiency of the solitons can be enhanced and manipulated by atom–atom interaction and soliton blackness. The results reported here are beneficial not only for understanding q...     

Dark Lump Excitations in Bose—Einstein Condensates

We investigate the dynamics of two-dimensional matter-wave pulses in a Bose-Einstein condensate with diskshaped traps.For the case of repulsive atom-atom interactions,a Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation with positive dipersion is derived using the method of multiple scales.The results show that it is possible to excite dark lump-like two-dimensional nonlinear excitations in the Bose-Einstein condensate.     

Multi-Type Solitons in Spin-Orbit Coupled Spin-1 Bose–Einstein Condensates

Recently, research of solitons in Bose–Einstein condensates has become a popular topic. Here, we mainly study exact analytical solutions of Gross–Pitaevskii equations describing spin-orbit coupled spin-1 Bose–Einstein condensates. To begin with, we show the analytical relation between different types of one-dimensional spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman effect. In addition, we find a transformation that can simplify the three-component Gross–Pitaevskii equations with spin-orbit coupling into the non...     

Emergent Quantum Euler Equation and Bose–Einstein Condensates

In this paper, proceeding from the recently developed way of deriving the quantum-mechanical equations from the classical ones, the complete system of hydrodynamical equations, including the quantum Euler equation, is derived for a perfect fluid and an imperfect fluid with pairwise interaction between the particles. For the Bose–Einstein condensate of the latter one the Bogolyubov spectrum of elementary excitations is easily reproduced in the acoustic approximation.     

Exact Temporal Evolution of Two-Species Bose–Einstein Condensates

We construct exact stationary solutions to the one-dimensional coupled Gross–Pitaevskii equations for the two-species Bose–Einstein condensates with equal intraspecies and interspecies interaction constants.Three types of complex solutions as well as their soliton limits are derived.By making use of the SU(2)unitary symmetry,we further obtain analytical time-evolving solutions.These solutions exhibit spatiotemporal periodicity.     

Capillary Flotation in a System of Two Immiscible Bose–Einstein Condensates

JETP Letters - A spatially inhomogeneous, trapped two-component Bose–Einstein condensate of cold atoms in the phase separation mode has been numerically simulated. It has been demonstrated...     

Langevin Equation of Collective Modes of Bose–Einstein Condensates in Traps

A quantum Langevin equation for the amplitudes of the collective modes in Bose–Einstein condensate is derived. The collective modes are coupled to a thermal reservoir of quasi-particles, whose elimination leads to the quantum Langevin equation. The dissipation rates are determined via the correlation function of the fluctuating force and are evaluated in the local-density approximation for the spectrum of quasi-particles and the Thomas–Fermi approximation for the condensate.I take great pleasure in dedicating this paper to Gregoire Nicolis on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.     

Statistical Entropy of an Acoustic Black Hole in Bose–Einstein Condensates

The entanglement entropy of an acoustic black hole in a Bose-Einstein condensates （BEC） is derived, which is associated with the phonons generated via the Hawking mechanism in a sonic hole. Considering the dispersion relation of a BEC, we recalculate the entanglement entropy of the acoustic black hole by means of statistical method in two limits. We find that the entropy is still proportional to the area of event horizon, but with a coefficient dependent on the infrared cutoff.     

Nonlinear Effects for Bose Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices

Cold atoms and, more recently, Bose-Einstein condensates （BEC＇s） in optical lattices have attracted increasing interest since their first realization. In particular, the formal similarity between the wavefunction of a BEC inside the periodic potential of an optical lattice and of the electrons in a crystal lattice has triggered theoretical and experimental efforts alike. Many phenomena from condensed matter physics, such as Bloch oscillations and Landau-Zener tunneling have been shown to be observable also in optical lattices. An important difference between electrons in a crystal lattice and a BEC inside the periodic potential of an optical lattice is the strength of the self interaction and hence the magnitude of the nonlinearity of the system. Electrons in a metal are almost noninteracting, whereas atoms inside a BEC interact strongly. A＇ perturbation approach is appropriate in the former case while in the latter the full nonlinearity must be taken into account. From this feature new physics is expected. Most experiments to date have been carried out in the regime of shallow lattice depth, for which the system is well described by the mean field Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a periodic potential. Moreover, the nonlinearity induced by the mean-field of the condensate has been shown, both theoretically and experimentally, to give rise to instabilities in certain regions of the Brillouin zone. These instabilities are not present in the corresponding linear system, i.e. the electron system. Experimental and theoretical results on the subject of nonlinear Landau-Zener tunneling and nonlinearity-induced instabilities in a Bose-Einstein condensate interacting with an external periodic potential will be presented.     

Solitons in Bose–Einstein condensates

The Gross–Pitaevskii equation (GPE) describing the evolution of the Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) order parameter for weakly interacting bosons supports dark solitons for repulsive interactions and bright solitons for attractive interactions. After a brief introduction to BEC and a general review of GPE solitons, we present our results on solitons that arise in the BEC of hard-core bosons, which is a system with strongly repulsive interactions. For a given background density, this system is found to support both a dark soliton and an antidark soliton (i.e., a bright soliton on a pedestal) for the density profile. When the background has more (less) holes than particles, the dark (antidark) soliton solution dies down as its velocity approaches the sound velocity of the system, while the antidark (dark) soliton persists all the way up to the sound velocity. This persistence is in contrast to the behaviour of the GPE dark soliton, which dies down at the Bogoliubov sound velocity. The energy–momentum dispersion relation for the solitons is shown to be similar to the exact quantum low-lying excitation spectrum found by Lieb for bosons with a delta-function interaction.     

Phase transition of Bose–Einstein condensate under decoherence

The effect of decoherence on the phase transition of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a symmetric double-well potential is determined by the mean atom number difference. It still has two phases, the tunneling phase and the self-trapping phase, even under decoherence. The density matrix and the operator fidelity also show very different behaviors in the two phases. This suggests that operator fidelity can be used to characterize the phase transition of this Bose-Einstein condensate model, even under decoherence.     

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.     

Energy Band and Josephson Dynamics of Spin-Orbit Coupled Bose–Einstein Condensates

We theoretically investigate the energy band structure and Josephson dynamics of a spin-orbit coupled Bose–Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. We study the energy band structure and the corresponding tunneling dynamics of the system by properly adjusting the SO coupling, Raman coupling, Zeeman field and atomic interactions.The coupled effects of SO coupling, Raman coupling, Zeeman field and atomic interactions lead to the appearance of complex energy band structure including the loop structure. Particularly, the emergence of the loop structure in energy band also depends on SO coupling, Raman coupling, Zeeman field and atomic interactions. Correspondingly,the Josephson dynamics of the system are strongly related to the energy band structure. Especially, the emergence of the loop structure results in complex tunneling dynamics, including suppression-revival transitions and self-trapping of atoms transfer between two spin states and two wells. This engineering provides a possible means for studying energy level and corresponding dynamics of two-species SO coupled BECs.     

Nonautonomous Breather and Rogue Wave in Spinor Bose–Einstein Condensates with Space-Time Modulated Potentials

To study controlled evolution of nonautonomous matter-wave breathers and rogue waves in spinor Bose–Einstein condensates with spatiotemporal modulation,we focus on a system of three coupled Gross–Pitaevskii equations with spacetime-dependent external potentials and temporally modulated gain-loss distributions.With different external potentials and gain-loss distributions,various solutions for controlled nonautonomous matterwave breathers and rogue waves are derived by the Darboux transformation ...