We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a system composed of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate and an optical cavity with the two sides coupled dispersively.By adopting discrete-mode approximation for the conde...We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a system composed of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate and an optical cavity with the two sides coupled dispersively.By adopting discrete-mode approximation for the condensate,taking atom loss as a necessary part of the model to analyze the evolution of the system,while using trial and error method to find out steady states of the system as a reference,numerical simulation demonstrates that with a constant pump,atom loss will trigger a quantum optical bi-stability switch,which predicts a new interesting phenomenon for experiments to verify.展开更多
Interactions between atoms in ultracold quantum gases play an important role in the study of the quantum simulation of many-body physics.Feshbach resonance is a versatile tool to control atomic interactions,where the ...Interactions between atoms in ultracold quantum gases play an important role in the study of the quantum simulation of many-body physics.Feshbach resonance is a versatile tool to control atomic interactions,where the atom-loss spectra are widely used to characterize Feshbach resonances of various atomic species.Here,we report the experimental observation of momentum-induced broadening of widths in atom-loss spectra of narrow ^(133)Cs Feshbach resonances.We drive Bragg excitation to kick the Bose-Einstein condensate of Cs atoms in a cigar-shaped optical trap,and measure the atom-loss spectra of narrow Feshbach resonances of moving ultracold atoms near the magnetic fields 19.84 G and 47.97 G.We show that the widths of the atom-loss spectra are broadened for the atoms with the momenta of 2hk,and 4hk,and even observe splitting in the Feshbach resonance of the atoms with momentum 4hk.Our work may open the way for exploring the interesting physical phenomena arising from the collective velocity of colliding atoms that have been ignored in general.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10934010 and 60978019)
文摘We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of a system composed of a cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate and an optical cavity with the two sides coupled dispersively.By adopting discrete-mode approximation for the condensate,taking atom loss as a necessary part of the model to analyze the evolution of the system,while using trial and error method to find out steady states of the system as a reference,numerical simulation demonstrates that with a constant pump,atom loss will trigger a quantum optical bi-stability switch,which predicts a new interesting phenomenon for experiments to verify.
基金funded by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant No.2022YFA1404201)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.62020106014,92165106,62175140,12074234,and 11974331)the Applied Basic Research Project of Shanxi Province,China(Grant No.202203021224001)。
文摘Interactions between atoms in ultracold quantum gases play an important role in the study of the quantum simulation of many-body physics.Feshbach resonance is a versatile tool to control atomic interactions,where the atom-loss spectra are widely used to characterize Feshbach resonances of various atomic species.Here,we report the experimental observation of momentum-induced broadening of widths in atom-loss spectra of narrow ^(133)Cs Feshbach resonances.We drive Bragg excitation to kick the Bose-Einstein condensate of Cs atoms in a cigar-shaped optical trap,and measure the atom-loss spectra of narrow Feshbach resonances of moving ultracold atoms near the magnetic fields 19.84 G and 47.97 G.We show that the widths of the atom-loss spectra are broadened for the atoms with the momenta of 2hk,and 4hk,and even observe splitting in the Feshbach resonance of the atoms with momentum 4hk.Our work may open the way for exploring the interesting physical phenomena arising from the collective velocity of colliding atoms that have been ignored in general.
