Phase Coherence and Fragmentation of Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates Loaded in State-Dependent Optical Lattices
arXiv:1109.6045 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.94.043631
Abstract
A binary mixture of interacting Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in the presence of fragmentation-driving external lattice potentials forms two interdependent mean-field lattices made of each component. These effective mean-field lattices, like ordinary optical lattices, can induce additional fragmentation and phase coherence loss of BECs between lattice sites. In this study, we consider the nonequilibrium dynamics of two hyperfine states of one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates, subjected to state-dependent optical lattices. Our numerical calculations using the truncated Wigner approximation (TWA) show that phase coherence in a mixture of two-component BECs can be lost not just by optical lattices, but by mean-field lattices gradually formed by other components, and we reveal that such an effect of internal mean-field lattices, however, is limited, contrary to external optical lattices, in regard to phase decoherence.
11 pages, 7 figures, restructured
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