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Phys. Rev. A 68, 053607 (2003) [8 pages]

Dynamic stability of dressed condensate mixtures

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Stewart D. Jenkins*,† and T. A. B. Kennedy‡,†
School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0430, USA

Received 10 July 2003; published 17 November 2003

We analyze the dynamical stability of common spatial, or breathe-together, modes for a system of two trapped interacting Bose-Einstein condensates, when the condensates are resonantly coupled by a strong driving field. We show analytically that the dynamical stability is governed by a set of dressed atom collision parameters, and that the driving field typically destabilizes breathe-together modes which are stable in the absence of driving and vice versa. By means of numerical solutions we illustrate the consequences of this phenomenon for a number of interacting condensates consisting of pairs of ground hyperfine states of both sodium and rubidium.

© 2003 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.68.053607
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.68.053607
PACS:
03.75.Mn

*Electronic address: stewart.jenkins@physics.gatech.edu

Electronic address: brian.kennedy@physics.gatech.edu

Also at Department of Chemical, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy.