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Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in a repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate

A. Montina, F. T. Arecchi

cond-mat.quant-gasarXiv:cond-mat/0206041

Abstract

We consider a Bose-Einstein bicondensate (BEC) of 87Rb, trapped in two different internal levels, in a situation where the density undergoes a symmetry breaking in momentum space. This occurs for a suitable number of condensed atoms within a double well dispersion curve, obtained by Raman coupling two internal states with two tilted and detuned light fields. Evidence of bistability results from the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. By second quantization, we evaluate the tunneling rate between the two asymmetric states; the effects of losses on coherence are also considered.

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