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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 43, Issue 13, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/43/13/135302
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We study the quantum behaviour of a binary mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates in a double-well potential starting from a two-mode Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian. We focus on the small tunnelling amplitude regime and apply perturbation theory up to second order. Analytical expressions for the energy eigenvalues and eigenstates are obtained. Then, the quantum evolution of the number difference of bosons between the two potential wells is fully investigated for two different initial conditions: completely localized states and coherent spin states. In the first case both the short-and the long-time dynamics is studied and a rich behaviour is found, ranging from small amplitude oscillations and collapses and revivals to coherent tunnelling. In the second case, the short-timescale evolution of number difference is determined and a more irregular dynamics is evidenced. Finally, the formation of Schrodinger cat states is considered and shown to affect the momentum distribution.
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