Revivals in an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential and their decoherence

We study the dynamics of ultracold attractive atoms in a weakly linked two potential wells. We consider an unbalanced initial state and monitor dynamics of the population difference between the two wells. The average imbalance between wells undergoes damped oscillations, like in a classical counterp...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review. A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2011-03, Vol.83 (3), Article 033606
Hauptverfasser: Pawłowski, Krzysztof, Ziń, Paweł, Rzążewski, Kazimierz, Trippenbach, Marek
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Zusammenfassung:We study the dynamics of ultracold attractive atoms in a weakly linked two potential wells. We consider an unbalanced initial state and monitor dynamics of the population difference between the two wells. The average imbalance between wells undergoes damped oscillations, like in a classical counterpart, but then it revives almost to the initial value. We explain in detail the whole behavior using three different models of the system. Furthermore, we investigate the sensitivity of the revivals on the decoherence caused by one- and three-body losses. We include the dissipative processes using appropriate master equations and solve them using the stochastic wave approximation method.
ISSN:1050-2947
1094-1622
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.83.033606