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Phys. Rev. A 78, 043609 (2008) [7 pages]

Stability and dynamical property for two-species ultracold atoms in double wells

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Xiao-Qiang Xu, Li-Hua Lu, and You-Quan Li
Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, People’s Republic of China

Received 9 June 2008; published 14 October 2008

We study undistinguishable two-species Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) trapped in double wells. In the mean-field approximation we map the quantum system into a classical model and investigate the existence and stability of the fixed point solutions. By appropriately varying the amplitude of the high-frequency periodic modulation on the energy bias between the two wells, we tune the tunneling strength in the adiabatic Rosen-Zener type effectively. Starting from two typical initial states, we study the evolution of the system and find that the interspecies interaction can produce totally distinct results, which is expected to provide a route to manipulate the BEC distribution.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.043609
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.78.043609
PACS:
03.75.Lm, 03.75.Mn, 03.75.Kk