Full text
| |
| Author(s): |
Thiago de Freitas Viscondi
Total Authors: 1
|
| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin |
| Defense date: | 2009-02-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Kyoko Furuya;
A. F. R. de Toledo Piza;
Marcos César de Oliveira
|
| Advisor: | Kyoko Furuya |
| Abstract | |
We examined several aspects of a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a symmetrically arranged triple-well potential, including the effects of the generally neglected interaction between particles in different local modes, known as cross-collisions. By means of an extension of the Schwinger¿s pseudospins formalism, we take advantage of the system¿s algebraic structure in order to obtain the classical analogue of the model, by using the coherent states of the fully symmetric representations of the SU(3) group. Employing this semiclassical approximation, we studied the different dynamical regimes of the system, which can be divided into three large groups, which we call as twin-condensate, single depleted well and vortex dynamics. These dynamical regimes are related to the behavior of the fixed points of the model, which exhibit bifurcations and changes of stability, essential tools to the understanding of the nonlinear tunneling phenomena. The twin-condensate dynamics is an integrable subregime of the system, where we observe the suppression of bosonic tunneling, known as macroscopic self-trapping. The vortex states are responsible for the rotational configurations of the condensate in the trap, while the single well depleted states exhibit one persistent vacant local mode. All the classical analogue results are compared to exact quantum calculations, in order to observe the origins of the broken quantum-classical correspondence, which we quantified with a measure of multipartite entanglement, known as generalized purity. We also consider the quantum phase transition for attractive bosonic interactions, which we connect to a change in population dynamics of the system, observed as the phase space fragmentation of the ground state representations (AU) | |