Browsing by Author "Arevalo, E."

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    One-BEC-species coherent oscillations with frequency controlled by a second species atom number
    (2022) Morales-Molina, L.; Arevalo, E.
    Controlling the tunneling of atoms of one species using a different atom species is a fundamental step in the development of a new class of atom quantum devices, where detection, motion control, and other functions over the atoms, can be achieved by exploiting the interaction between two different atomic species. Here, we theoretically study coherent oscillations of a non-self-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) species in a triple-well potential controlled by a self-interacting species self-trapped in the central well of the potential. In this system, a blockade, due to the interspecies interaction, prevents atoms of the non-self-interacting species from populating the central well. Thus, for an initial population imbalance between the left- and right-hand wells of the non-self-interacting species, coherent BEC oscillations are induced between these two wells, resembling those of Rabi-like BEC oscillations in a double-well potential. The oscillation period is found to scale linearly with the number of self-trapped atoms as well as with the interspecies interaction strength. This behavior is corroborated by the quantum many-particle and the mean-field models of the system. We show that BEC oscillations can be described by using an effective bosonic Josephson junction with a tunneling amplitude that depends on the number of the self-trapped atoms in the central well. We also consider the effect of the self-trapped atom losses on the coherent oscillations. We show, by using quantum trajectories, that this type of losses leads to a dynamical change in the oscillation period of the non-self-interacting species, which in turn allows the number of self-trapped atoms lost from the system to be estimated.
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    Quantum sensing of matter waves using BEC oscillations
    (2022) Morales-Molina, L.; Arevalo, E.
    Detecting matter waves in modern atom circuits is one of the most important operations for feasible applications. Here, we propose a sensor to monitor matter waves in atom circuits. The operation of this sensor is based on the interaction between two different Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) species in which one of the species is non-self-interacting and is restricted to perform coherent oscillations between the non-central wells of a triple-well potential (TWP). The detection, in the atom circuit to be monitored, occurs when the central well of the TWP is coupled to the circuit. Here, to simulate the regular operation of an atom circuit, we consider BEC matter waves propagating along a ring-shaped optical lattice (OL). We demonstrate numerically and analytically that this coupling leads to a variation of the BEC-oscillation period due to matter waves transiting the sensor. In particular, we show that small fluctuations of the matter waves can be detected by the variations of the BEC-oscillation period. As an example, by using a time-frequency wavelet analysis of the evolution of the population imbalance between the non-central wells of the sensor, we show the feasibility of coherent BEC oscillations to detect and accurately scan bright solitons moving in the ring-shaped OL.