Stabilization of a Bose-Einstein droplet by hyperfine Rabi oscillations

Hiroki Saito, Randall G. Hulet, and Masahito Ueda
Phys. Rev. A 76, 053619 – Published 21 November 2007

Abstract

A self-trapped Bose-Einstein condensate is shown to be stabilized in two-dimensional free space by Rabi oscillations between two hyperfine states which make an effective interatomic interaction oscillate in time. The stabilization mechanism is elucidated by using a two-component Gross-Pitaevskii equation combined with a variational analysis. The parameter regime of stability is investigated.

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  • Received 30 July 2007

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.053619

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Hiroki Saito1, Randall G. Hulet2, and Masahito Ueda3,4

  • 1Department of Applied Physics and Chemistry, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan
  • 2Department of Physics and Astronomy and Rice Quantum Institute, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77251, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
  • 4ERATO Macroscopic Quantum Control Project, JST, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

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Vol. 76, Iss. 5 — November 2007

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