Macroscopic self-trapping in the dynamical tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate
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| author | Wüster, Sebastian Cree, Joy Davis, Matthew J. |
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| contents | A Bose-Einstein condensate in a modulated, one-dimensional, anharmonic potential can exhibit dynamical tunneling between islands of regular motion in phase space. With increasingly repulsive atomic interactions, dynamical tunneling is predicted to cease due to self-trapping [S. Wüster et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 080401 (2012)]. This suppression of tunneling oscillations is related to the same phenomenon that occurs in the two-mode dynamics of a repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. Here we present a two-mode model for dynamical tunnelling based on nonlinear Floquet states and examine the range of validity of the approximation. We characterise nonlinear dynamical tunneling for different trap strengths, modulation amplitudes, and effective Planck constants. Using the linear Floquet states we derive an expression for the critical nonlinearity beyond which tunneling ceases. Finally we demonstrate the dynamical instability of selected nonlinear Floquet states and show how to initialise some Floquet states in experiments. Our detailed survey will enable experiments to target accessible parameter regimes for the study of nonlinear dynamical tunneling. |
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| spellingShingle | Macroscopic self-trapping in the dynamical tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate Wüster, Sebastian Cree, Joy Davis, Matthew J. Quantum Gases Quantum Physics A Bose-Einstein condensate in a modulated, one-dimensional, anharmonic potential can exhibit dynamical tunneling between islands of regular motion in phase space. With increasingly repulsive atomic interactions, dynamical tunneling is predicted to cease due to self-trapping [S. Wüster et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 109 080401 (2012)]. This suppression of tunneling oscillations is related to the same phenomenon that occurs in the two-mode dynamics of a repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential. Here we present a two-mode model for dynamical tunnelling based on nonlinear Floquet states and examine the range of validity of the approximation. We characterise nonlinear dynamical tunneling for different trap strengths, modulation amplitudes, and effective Planck constants. Using the linear Floquet states we derive an expression for the critical nonlinearity beyond which tunneling ceases. Finally we demonstrate the dynamical instability of selected nonlinear Floquet states and show how to initialise some Floquet states in experiments. Our detailed survey will enable experiments to target accessible parameter regimes for the study of nonlinear dynamical tunneling. |
| title | Macroscopic self-trapping in the dynamical tunneling of a Bose-Einstein condensate |
| topic | Quantum Gases Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.05364 |