Monday, June 11, 2012

1206.1652 (Yixiao Huang et al.)

Macroscopic quantum coherence in spinor condensates confined in an
anisotropic potential
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Yixiao Huang, Yunbo Zhang, Rong Lü, Xiaoguang Wang, Su Yi
We investigate the macroscopic quantum coherence of a spin-1 Rb condensate confined in an anisotropic potential. Under the single-mode approximation, we show that the system can be modeled as a biaxial quantum magnet due to the interplay between the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction and the anisotropic potential. By applying a magnetic field along the hard-axis, we show that the tunneling splitting oscillates as a function of the field strength. We also propose an experimental scheme to detect the oscillatory behavior of the tunneling splitting by employing the Landau-Zener tunneling.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.1652

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