Monday, June 11, 2012

1206.1606 (Ching-Hao Wang et al.)

Particle-wave duality in quantum tunneling of a bright soliton    [PDF]

Ching-Hao Wang, Tzay-Ming Hong, Ray-Kuang Lee, Daw-Wei Wang
One of the most fundamental difference between classical and quantum mechanics is observed in the particle tunneling through a localized potential: the former predicts a discontinuous transmission coefficient ($T$) as a function in incident velocity between one (complete penetration) and zero (complete reflection), while the later always changes smoothly as a wave nature. Here we report a systematic study of the quantum tunneling property for a bright soliton in ultracold atoms, which behaves as a classical particle (matter wave) in the limit of small (large) incident velocity. In the intermediate regime, the classical and quantum properties are combined via a finite (but not full) discontinuity in the tunneling transmission coefficient. We demonstrate that the formation of a localized bound state is essential to describe such inelastic collisions, showing a nontrivial nonlinear effect on the quantum transportation of a bright soliton.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1606

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