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Title: Analog of Photon-Assisted Tunneling in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

Journal Article · · Physical Review Letters
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  1. Institut fuer Physik, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet, D-26111 Oldenburg (Germany)

We study many-body tunneling of a small Bose-Einstein condensate in a periodically modulated, tilted double-well potential. Periodic modulation of the trapping potential leads to an analog of photon-assisted tunneling, with distinct signatures of the interparticle interaction visible in the amount of particles transferred from one well to the other. In particular, under experimentally accessible conditions there exist well-developed half-integer Shapiro-like resonances.

OSTI ID:
20699558
Journal Information:
Physical Review Letters, Vol. 95, Issue 20; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.200401; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English