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Splitting dynamics of a two-species Bose-Einstein condensate in two translating traps

  • Bo Sun EMAIL logo and Michael Pindzola
From the journal Open Physics

Abstract

We extend our previous work of splitting a single-species Bose-Einstein condensate in two translating traps to a two-species condensate. Different from the single species case where interaction is considered as a damping mechanism to the motion of the condensate, we find that, in the two species case, the damping effect is much less obvious and the splitting dynamics exhibit different behaviors. The distribution of each component are not damped towards 50:50 for large interaction strength in the two wells. Our conclusions are supported by investigating the dependence of the splitting on both the translation speed and the interspecies scattering length.

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Published Online: 2011-9-15
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