Quantum systems engineering

Abstract:

We analyze the dynamical melting of two-component atomic Mott-Insulator states in a completely-connected optical lattice within the adiabatic approximation. We examine in detail the effect of the dynamical phase acquired by the state during the adiabatic melting of the lattice potential. We show how for certain limits an on-site superposition state with two particles per site melts into a macroscopic superposition state, while an on-site superposition state with only one particle per site melts into a coherent state. © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd.

Abstract:

In this paper, we study dimension reduction of the three-dimensional (3D) Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) modeling Bose-Einstein condensation under different limiting interaction and trapping frequency parameter regimes. Convergence rates for the dimension reduction of 3D ground state and dynamics of the GPE in the case of disk-shaped condensation and cigar-shaped condensation are reported based on our asymptotic and numerical results. In addition, the parameter regimes in which the 3D GPE cannot be reduced to lower dimensions are identified. © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.