Shortcut to adiabaticity for an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

We present an investigation of the fast decompression of a three-dimensional (3D) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at finite temperature using an engineered trajectory for the harmonic trapping potential. Taking advantage of the scaling invariance properties of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equa...

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Autores principales: Schaff, J.-F., Song, X.-L., Capuzzi, P., Vignolo, P., Labeyrie, G.
Formato: JOUR
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_02955075_v93_n2_p_Schaff
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Sumario:We present an investigation of the fast decompression of a three-dimensional (3D) Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at finite temperature using an engineered trajectory for the harmonic trapping potential. Taking advantage of the scaling invariance properties of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we exhibit a solution yielding a final state identical to that obtained through a perfectly adiabatic transformation, in a much shorter time. Experimentally, we perform a large trap decompression and displacement within a time comparable to the final radial trapping period. By simultaneously monitoring the BEC and the non-condensed fraction, we demonstrate that our specific trap trajectory is valid both for a quantum interacting many-body system and a classical ensemble of non-interacting particles. Copyright © EPLA, 2011.