Tuning Static and Dynamic Properties of a QuasiOne-Dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate
DPG conference 2016
Javed Akram, Axel Pelster
1: BEC with dimple trap Phys. Rev. A 93, 023606 (2016) andarXiv:1510.07138
2: Impurity in BEC Phys. Rev. A (in press), arXiv:1508.054823: BEC in GOST J. Phys. B: At., Mol. Opt. Phys. (in press),
arXiv:1509.05987
March 4, 2016
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1.1: Quasi one-dimensionalGross-Pitaevskii equation
Quasi one-dimensional setting1 (aB/lz)Υ 1 , here Υ = lr/lz
ψ(r, t) = ψ(z, t)φ(r⊥, t) here φ(r⊥, t) = e− x2+y2
2Υ2
Υ√
π e−i ωrωz t
i∂∂ t
ψ(z, t) =
−1
2∂ 2
∂z2 +z2
2+ U1D
dT (z) + GB ‖ ψ(z, t) ‖2
ψ(z, t)
Here U1DdT (z) ∝ I(z)
∆ with ∆ = ω−ωA.
For NB = 2×105 atoms of 87Rb GB = 2NBωraB/lzωz = 11435.9
1J. Exp. Theor. Phys. 98, 908 (2003).Javed Akram, Axel Pelster | DPG conference 2016
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1.2: Stationary condensate wave functionDimple trap vs HGdT potential
U<0 (Red detuned)
−20 −10 0 10 200
0.05
0.1
0.15
0.2
0.25
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
-1000-900-800-700-600-500-400-300-200-1000
U
TEM00 mode dimple trap (dT)
U1DdT (z) = Ue−
z2
w2
−20 −10 0 10 200
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
0.14
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
-1000-900-800-700-600-500-400-300-200-1000
U
TEM01 Hermite-Gaussian dimpletrap (HGdT)
U1DHGdT (r) = Uz2e−
z2
w2
Here U ∝ 1∆ with ∆ = ω−ωA
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1.3: Stationary condensate wave functionDimple trap vs HGdT potential
U>0 (blue detuned)
−20 −10 0 10 200
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
10009008007006005004003002001000
U
TEM00 mode dimple trap (dT)
U1DdT (z) = Ue−
z2
w2
−20 −10 0 10 200
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
0.035
0.04
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
10009008007006005004003002001000
U
TEM01 Hermite-Gaussian dimpletrap (HGdT)
U1DHGdT (r) = Uz2e−
z2
w2
Here U ∝ 1∆ with ∆ = ω−ωA
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1.4: Excitation of SolitonsAfter having switched off the dT or HGdT
U>0 (Blue detuned)
0 5 10 15 20 250
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
t=0t =0.75
dT potential
U=100
0 5 10 15 20 250
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
t=0
t =5.3
HGdT potential
U=3500
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2.1: Equilibrium phase diagramLocalization of impurity 133Cs
g IB
-20 -10 0 10 20
g B
0
5
10
15
20
g IB
-20 -10 0 10 20
g B
0
5
10
15
20
g IB
-20 -10 0 10 20
g B
0
5
10
15
20(a) (b) (c)
(a) NB = 20 (b) NB = 200 and (c) NB = 800
Unstable region (Black), localized impurity region (Blue) & impurityexpelled to the condensate border (Red)
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2.2: Numerical densityProfile of the BEC for GB = 16000
−2 −1 0 1 20.0258
0.026
0.0262
0.0264
0.0266
0.0268
0.027
0.0272
z
nB(z)
-10-8-6-20
−0.4 −0.2 0 0.2 0.40
0.005
0.01
0.015
0.02
0.025
0.03
z
nB(z)
020406080100120
(a) (b)
gIBgIB
Interspecies coupling strength,(a) attractive (gIB < 0) (b) repulsive (gIB > 0)
here NB = 800 and gIBc ≈ 110
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2.3: Density profile of the BECInterspecies coupling strength switched off i.e. gIB = 0 at t = 0
0 2 4 6 8 10−30
−20
−10
0
10
20
30
t
z R,z
L
-8-6-4-2
attractive (gIB < 0)
z(t) =√
2µ sin(
t/√
2)
0 2 4 6 8 10−30
−20
−10
0
10
20
30
t
z R,z
L
12010080604020
repulsive (gIB > 0)
Soliton Freq.2 Ω/ωz = 1/√
2,Hamburg3 & Heidelberg Exp.4
2Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2298 (2000).3Nature Phys. 4, 496 (2008).4Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130401 (2008).
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3.1: Gravito-optical surface trap (GOST)Experimental setup and potential
V (z) = V0e−z + z
0 5 10 15 20 250
5
10
15
20
25
z
V
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3.2: Stationary mirror solutionThomas-Fermi approximation for the BEC
0 10 20 30 40 50 600
0.02
0.04
0.06
0.08
0.1
0.12
z
‖ψ(z)‖2
103
104
105
0 200 400 600 800 1000 12000
1
2
3
4
5x 10
−3
z‖ψ(z)‖2
106
107
108
(a) (b)
NB NB
TF solution (circles) Numerical solution (solid lines)
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3.3: Innsbruck experimentFraction of remaining atoms during time-of-flight
Innsbruck Exp.5 (black-circles) & our numerical results(red-solid line) V0 = 453 and NB = 2400 133Cs atoms
0 0.5 1 1.50
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
t (ms)
Rem
aining
Fraction
5Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 173003 (2004).Javed Akram, Axel Pelster | DPG conference 2016
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