Quantum-Fluctuation-Driven Coherent Spin Dynamics in Small Condensates
Abstract
We have studied quantum spin dynamics of small condensates of cold sodium atoms. For a condensate initially prepared in a mean field ground state, we show that coherent spin dynamics are purely driven by quantum fluctuations of collective spin coordinates and can be tuned by quadratic Zeeman coupling and magnetization. These dynamics in small condensates can be probed in a high-finesse optical cavity where temporal behaviors of excitation spectra of a coupled condensate-photon system reveal the time evolution of populations of atoms at different hyperfine spin states.
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