A numerical study of the Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well trap using finite differences

Abstract

Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential contain the essential ingredients to study many-body systems within a rich classical phase-space that includes an unstable point and a separatrix. Employing a selfconsistent finite difference method, we study some of their quantum properties and their dependency on the strength of the boson-boson interaction. We observe a deviation in the critical parameters associated with a behavior change in both the energy distribution and the eigenstates of the system. We also examine the trends of the nonclassicality via the Wigner function, the tunneling transmission coefficient, and the nonorthogonality of eigenstates associated with the nonlinearity aspects of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.