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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 41: Ultra-cold Atoms, Ions and BEC II (joint session A/Q)

Q 41.3: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 14. März 2024, 11:30–11:45, HS 1098

Stabilization of a paramatrically driven BEC: an open quantum system approach — •Larissa Schwarz, Simon B. Jäger, and Sebastian Eggert — Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany

We theoretically analyze the effects of periodically modulated repulsive interactions in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) that features intrinsic damping mechanisms. We derive a master equation describing the dynamics of the momentum modes of the BEC in the parameter regime of weak driving strengths. Above a threshold for the modulation strength we find that the BEC becomes unstable. Below this threshold the combination of damping and periodic driving guides the system into a stationary state that shows an enhancement of fluctuations for specific momentum modes that can be controlled by the driving frequency. We analyze the stationary state of these fluctuations, quantify the condensate depletion and analyze the squeezed and anti-squeezed quadratures generated by the parametric driving, emphasizing the possibility to generate non-classical states of matter.

Keywords: Periodic driving; Bose-Einstein condensate; Nonlinear interactions; Open quantum systems; Steady states