中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (11): 110304-110304.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab44b6

• SPECIAL TOPIC—Recent advances in thermoelectric materials and devices • 上一篇    下一篇

Atom-pair tunneling and quantum phase transition in asymmetry double-well trap in strong-interaction regime

Ji-Li Liu(刘吉利), Jiu-Qing Liang(梁九卿)   

  1. 1 College of Physics and Information Engineering, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen 041004, China;
    2 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-07-05 修回日期:2019-08-22 出版日期:2019-11-05 发布日期:2019-11-05
  • 通讯作者: Ji-Li Liu E-mail:liujili2006@aliyun.com
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11075099).

Atom-pair tunneling and quantum phase transition in asymmetry double-well trap in strong-interaction regime

Ji-Li Liu(刘吉利)1, Jiu-Qing Liang(梁九卿)2   

  1. 1 College of Physics and Information Engineering, Shanxi Normal University, Linfen 041004, China;
    2 Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
  • Received:2019-07-05 Revised:2019-08-22 Online:2019-11-05 Published:2019-11-05
  • Contact: Ji-Li Liu E-mail:liujili2006@aliyun.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11075099).

摘要: The quantum effect of nonlinear co-tunnelling process, which is dependent on atom-pair tunneling and asymmetry of an double-well trap, is studied by using an asymmetrical extended Bose-Hubbard model. Due to the existence of atom-pair tunneling that describes quantum phenomena of ultracold atom-gas clouds in an asymmetrical double-well trap, the asymmetrical extended Bose-Hubbard model is better than the previous Bose-Hubbard model model by comparing with the experimental data cited from the literature. The dependence of dynamics and quantum phase transition on atom-pair tunneling and asymmetry are investigated. Importantly, it shows that the asymmetry of the extended Bose-Hubbard model, corresponding to the bias between double wells, leads to a number of resonance tunneling processes, which tunneling is renamed conditional resonance tunneling, and corrects the atom-number parity effect by controlling the bias between double wells.

关键词: atom-pair tunneling, quantum phase transition

Abstract: The quantum effect of nonlinear co-tunnelling process, which is dependent on atom-pair tunneling and asymmetry of an double-well trap, is studied by using an asymmetrical extended Bose-Hubbard model. Due to the existence of atom-pair tunneling that describes quantum phenomena of ultracold atom-gas clouds in an asymmetrical double-well trap, the asymmetrical extended Bose-Hubbard model is better than the previous Bose-Hubbard model model by comparing with the experimental data cited from the literature. The dependence of dynamics and quantum phase transition on atom-pair tunneling and asymmetry are investigated. Importantly, it shows that the asymmetry of the extended Bose-Hubbard model, corresponding to the bias between double wells, leads to a number of resonance tunneling processes, which tunneling is renamed conditional resonance tunneling, and corrects the atom-number parity effect by controlling the bias between double wells.

Key words: atom-pair tunneling, quantum phase transition

中图分类号:  (Tunneling, Josephson effect, Bose-Einstein condensates in periodic potentials, solitons, vortices, and topological excitations)

  • 03.75.Lm
05.30.-d (Quantum statistical mechanics) 67.85.Hj (Bose-Einstein condensates in optical potentials)