Nonlinear resonant transport of Bose-Einstein condensates

[en] The coherent flow of a Bose-Einstein condensate through a quantum dot in a magnetic waveguide is studied. By the numerical integration of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the presence of a source term, we simulate the propagation process of the condensate through a double barrier potential in the waveguide. We find that resonant transport is suppressed in interaction-induced regimes of bistability, where multiple scattering states exist at the same chemical potential and the same incident current. We demonstrate, however, that a temporal control of the external potential can be used to circumvent this limitation and to obtain enhanced transmission near the resonance on experimentally realistic time scales.

Disciplines :

Physics

Author, co-author :

Paul, T.

Richter, K.

Schlagheck, Peter ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Physique quantique statistique

Language :

English

Title :

Nonlinear resonant transport of Bose-Einstein condensates

Publication date :

2005

Journal title :

Physical Review Letters

ISSN :

0031-9007

eISSN :

1079-7114

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American Physical Society, Ridge, United States - New York

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