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Adiabatic tracking for photo- and magneto-association of Bose-Einstein condensates with Kerr nonlinearities

Adiabatic tracking for photo- and magneto-association of Bose-Einstein condensates with Kerr nonlinearities

Authors :
Gevorgyan, M.
Guérin, S.
Leroy, C.
Ishkhanyan, A.
Jauslin, H. R.
Source :
EPJD 70, 253 (2016)
Publication Year :
2017

Abstract

We develop the method of adiabatic tracking for photo- and magneto-association of Bose-Einstein atomic condensates with models that include Kerr type nonlinearities. We show that the inclusion of these terms can produce qualitatively important modifications in the adiabatic dynamics, like the appearance of bifurcations, in which the trajectory that is being tracked loses its stability. As a consequence the adiabatic theorem does not apply and the adiabatic transfer can be strongly degraded. This degradation can be compensated by using fields that are strong enough compared with the values of the Kerr terms. The main result is that, despite these potentially detrimental features, there is always a choice of the detuning that leads to an efficient adiabatic tracking, even for relatively weak fields.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Journal :
EPJD 70, 253 (2016)
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1703.08447
Document Type :
Working Paper
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2016-70396-9