Phase-slippage and self-trapping in a self-induced bosonic Josephson junction

Abstract

A dipolar condensate confined in a toroidal trap constitutes a self-induced Josepshon junction when the dipoles are oriented perpendicularly to the trap symmetry axis and the s-wave scattering length is small enough. The ring-shaped double-well potential coming from the anisotropic character of the mean-field dipolar interaction is robust enough to sustain self-trapping dynamics, which takes place when the initial population imbalance between the two wells is large. We show that in this system the self-trapping regime is directly related to a vortex-induced phase-slip dynamics. A vortex and antivortex are spontaneously nucleated in the low density regions, before a minimum of the population imbalance is reached, and then cross the toroidal section in opposite directions through the junctions.This vortex dynamics yields a phase slip between the two weakly linked condensates causing an inversion of the particle flux.

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