Monday, July 16, 2012

1207.3184 (E. Torrontegui et al.)

Engineering fast and stable splitting of matter waves    [PDF]

E. Torrontegui, S. Martínez-Garaot, M. Modugno, Xi Chen, J. G. Muga
When attempting to split coherent cold atom clouds or a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) by bifurcation of the trap into a double well, slow adiabatic following is unstable with respect to any slight asymmetry, and the wave "collapses" to the lower well, whereas a generic fast chopping splits the wave but it also excites it. Shortcuts to adiabaticity engineered to speed up the adiabatic process through non-adiabatic transients, provide instead quiet and robust fast splitting. The non-linearity of the BEC makes the proposed shortcut even more stable.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3184

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