Hannover 2010 – scientific programme

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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 21: Poster I

Q 21.63: Poster

Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 16:00–19:00, Lichthof

Reproducible chaos-induced mesoscopic superpositions of Bose-Einstein condensates — •Bettina Gertjerenken, Stephan Arlinghaus, Niklas Teichmann, and Christoph Weiss — Institut für Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 26111 Oldenburg

In a parameter regime for which the mean-field (Gross-Pitaevskii) dynamics become chaotic, mesoscopic quantum superpositions in phase space can occur in a double-well potential which is shaken periodically. For experimentally realistic initial states like the ground state of some 100 atoms, the emergence of mesoscopic quantum superpositions in phase space is investigated numerically. It is shown to be reproducible even if the initial conditions slightly change. While the final state is not a perfect superposition of two distinct phase-states, the superposition is reached an order of magnitude faster than in the case of the collapse and revival phenomenon. Furthermore, a generator of entanglement generation is identified.