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Comment on ``Phase and Phase Diffusion of a Split Bose-Einstein Condensate''
Recently Javanainen and Wilkens [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 4675 (1997)] have
analysed an experiment in which an interacting Bose condensate, after being
allowed to form in a single potential well, is "cut" by splitting the well
adiabatically with a very high potential barrier, and estimate the rate at
which, following the cut, the two halves of the condensate lose the "memory" of
their relative phase. We argue that, by neglecting the effect of interactions
in the initial state before the separation, they have overestimated the rate of
phase randomization by a numerical factor which grows with the interaction
strength and with the slowness of the separation process.Comment: 2 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Let
On the Supersolid State of Matter
We prove that the necessary condition for a solid to be also a superfluid is
to have zero-point vacancies, or interstitial atoms, or both, as an integral
part of the ground state. As a consequence, superfluidity is not possible in
commensurate solids which break continuous translation symmetry. We discuss
recent experiment by Kim and Chan [Nature, {\bf 427}, 225 (2004)] in the
context of this theorem, question its bulk supersolid interpretation, and offer
an alternative explanation in terms of superfluid helium interfaces.Comment: 4 figures, 4 page
Dissipation-induced d-Wave Pairing of Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice
We show how dissipative dynamics can give rise to pairing for two-component
fermions on a lattice. In particular, we construct a "parent" Liouvillian
operator so that a BCS-type state of a given symmetry, e.g. a d-wave state, is
reached for arbitrary initial states in the absence of conservative forces. The
system-bath couplings describe single-particle, number conserving and
quasi-local processes. The pairing mechanism crucially relies on Fermi
statistics. We show how such Liouvillians can be realized via reservoir
engineering with cold atoms representing a driven dissipative dynamics.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Replaced with the published versio
Influence of External Fields and Environment on the Dynamics of Phase Qubit-Resonator System
We analyze the dynamics of a qubit-resonator system coupled with a thermal
bath and external electromagnetic fields. Using the evolution equations for the
set of Heisenberg operators, that describe the whole system, we derive an
expression for the resonator field, accounting for the resonator-drive,-bath,
and -qubit interaction. The renormalization of the resonator frequency, caused
by the qubit-resonator interaction, is accounted for. Using solutions for the
resonator field, we derive the equation describing qubit dynamics. The
influence of the qubit evolution during the measurement time on the fidelity of
a single-shot measurement is studied. The relation between the fidelity and
measurement time is shown explicitly. Also, an expression describing relaxation
of the superposition qubit state towards its stationary value is derived. The
possibility of controlling this state, by varying the amplitude and frequency
of drive, is shown.Comment: 15 page
Feasibility of Experimental Realization of Entangled Bose-Einstein Condensation
We examine the practical feasibility of the experimental realization of the
so-called entangled Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), occurring in an entangled
state of two atoms of different species. We demonstrate that if the energy gap
remains vanishing, the entangled BEC persists as the ground state of the
concerned model in a wide parameter regime. We establish the experimental
accessibility of the isotropic point of the effective parameters, in which the
entangled BEC is the exact ground state, as well as the consistency with the
generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equations. The transition temperature is
estimated. Possible experimental implementations are discussed in detail.Comment: 6 pages, published versio
Superfluidity and excitations at unitarity
We present lattice results for spin-1/2 fermions at unitarity, where the
effective range of the interaction is zero and the scattering length is
infinite. We measure the spatial coherence of difermion pairs for a system of
6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26 particles with equal numbers of up and down spins in a
periodic cube. Using Euclidean time projection, we analyze ground state
properties and transient behavior due to low-energy excitations. At
asymptotically large values of t we see long-range order consistent with
spontaneously broken U(1) fermion-number symmetry and a superfluid ground
state. At intermediate times we see exponential decay in the t-dependent signal
due to an unknown low-energy excitation. We probe this low-energy excitation
further by calculating two-particle correlation functions. We find that the
excitation has the properties of a chain of particles extending across the
periodic lattice.Comment: 40 pages, 19 figures, revised version includes new data on
two-particle density correlation
Thermodynamics of the BCS-BEC crossover
We present a self-consistent theory for the thermodynamics of the BCS-BEC
crossover in the normal and superfluid phase which is both conserving and
gapless. It is based on the variational many-body formalism developed by
Luttinger and Ward and by DeDominicis and Martin. Truncating the exact
functional for the entropy to that obtained within a ladder approximation, the
resulting self-consistent integral equations for the normal and anomalous Green
functions are solved numerically for arbitrary coupling. The critical
temperature, the equation of state and the entropy are determined as a function
of the dimensionless parameter , which controls the crossover from the
BCS-regime of extended pairs to the BEC-regime of tightly bound molecules. The
tightly bound pairs turn out to be described by a Popov-type approximation for
a dilute, repulsive Bose gas. Even though our approximation does not capture
the critical behaviour near the continuous superfluid transition, our results
provide a consistent picture for the complete crossover thermodynamics which
compare well with recent numerical and field-theoretic approaches at the
unitarity point.Comment: published versio
Creation of NOON states by double Fock-state/Bose-Einstein condensates
NOON states (states of the form where and
are single particle states) have been used for predicting violations of
hidden-variable theories (Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger violations) and are
valuable in metrology for precision measurements of phase at the Heisenberg
limit. We show theoretically how the use of two Fock state/Bose-Einstein
condensates as sources in a modified Mach Zender interferometer can lead to the
creation of the NOON state in which and refer to arms of the
interferometer and is the total number of particles in the two condensates.
The modification of the interferometer involves making conditional ``side''
measurements of a few particles near the sources. These measurements put the
remaining particles in a superposition of two phase states, which are converted
into NOON states by a beam splitter. The result is equivalent to the quantum
experiment in which a large molecule passes through two slits. The NOON states
are combined in a final beam splitter and show interference. Attempts to detect
through which ``slit'' the condensates passed destroys the interference.Comment: 8 pages 5 figure
Spin Injection into a Luttinger Liquid
We study the effect of spin injection into a Luttinger liquid. The
spin-injection-detection setup of Johnson and Silsbee is considered; here spins
injected into the Luttinger liquid induce, across an interface with a
ferromagnetic metal, either a spin-dependent current () or a
spin-dependent boundary voltage (). We find that the spin-charge
separation nature of the Luttinger liquid affects and in a very
different fashion. In particular, in the Ohmic regime, depends on the
spin transport properties of the Luttinger liquid in essentially the same way
as it would in the case of a Fermi liquid. The implications of our results for
the spin-injection-detection experiments in the high cuprates are
discussed.Comment: 4 pages, REVTEX, 2 figures. Minor changes and corrections to typos.
To appear in Phys. Rev. Let
Formation of magnetic impurities and pair-breaking effect in a superfluid Fermi gas
We theoretically investigate a possible idea to introduce magnetic impurities
to a superfluid Fermi gas. In the presence of population imbalance
(, where is the number of Fermi atoms with
pseudospin ), we show that nonmagnetic potential
scatterers embedded in the system are magnetized in the sense that some of
excess -spin atoms are localized around them. They destroy the
superfluid order parameter around them, as in the case of magnetic impurity
effect discussed in the superconductivity literature. This pair-breaking effect
naturally leads to localized excited states below the superfluid excitation
gap. To confirm our idea in a simply manner, we treat an attractive Fermi
Hubbard model within the mean-field theory at T=0. We self-consistently
determine superfluid properties around a nonmagnetic impurity, such as the
superfluid order parameter, local population imbalance, as well as
single-particle density of states, in the presence of population imbalance.
Since the competition between superconductivity and magnetism is one of the
most fundamental problems in condensed matter physics, our results would be
useful for the study of this important issue in cold Fermi gases.Comment: 27 pages, 14 figure
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