NOON states with ultracold bosonic atoms via resonance- and chaos-assisted tunneling

Abstract

We theoretically investigate the generation of microscopic atomic NOON states, corresponding to the coherent |N,0> + |0,N> superposition with N ~ 5 particles, via collective tunneling of interacting ultracold bosonic atoms within a symmetric double-well potential in the self-trapping regime. We show that a periodic driving of the double well with suitably tuned amplitude and frequency parameters allows one to substantially boost this tunneling process without altering its collective character. The time scale to generate the NOON superposition, which corresponds to half the tunneling time and would be prohibitively large in the undriven double well for the considered atomic populations, can thereby be drastically reduced, which renders the realization of NOON states through this protocol experimentally feasible. Resonance- and chaos-assisted tunneling are identified as key mechanisms in this context. A quantitative semiclassical evaluation of their impact onto the collective tunneling process allows one to determine the optimal choice for the driving parameters in order to generate those NOON states as fast as possible.

10 pages, 6 figures

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