Correlation evolution in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates after quantum quenches

Abstract

The universal forms of quantum density and phase correlations after an interaction quench are found for dilute 1d, 2d, and 3d condensates. A Bogoliubov approach in a local density aproximation is used. We obtain compact expressions for the most visible effects. Our results show how loss of phase coherence and antibunching are built up after the quench by quantum fluctuations. We demonstrate further that the density correlations can be observed even with imaging resolution much worse than healing length. This indicates that the direct measurement of counterpropagating atom pairs in situ in a continuum system is realistic. The conditions in contemporary 1d experiments are especially favorable for the correlation wave observations.