Order parameter and Josephson effect of nonuniform molecular Bose-Einstein condensates
- 1. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
- 2. Center for Cold Atom Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 (China)
- 3. State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430071 (China)
Description
For two-component Fermi gases at zero temperature, through a general derivation based on the BCS wave function, our research shows that the nonuniform molecular Bose-Einstein condensate has off-diagonal long-range order and can be described well by an order parameter when the size of molecules is much smaller than the size of the whole system. We also give the equation of state and nonlinear evolution equation for the order parameter of nonuniform molecular condensates, which is similar to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation of atomic Bose condensate. The nonlinear evolution equation is applied to consider the Josephson effect for two weakly linked molecular condensates in the presence of nonuniform magnetic field. We find clear particle-number oscillation where spatially dependent binding energy of molecules plays an important role
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. A
- Journal Volume
- 74
- Journal Issue
- 3
- Journal Page Range
- p. 033602-033602.7
- ISSN
- 1050-2947
- CODEN
- PLRAAN
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- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 38029910
- Subject category
- S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- BCS THEORY; BINDING ENERGY; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; EQUATIONS OF STATE; EVOLUTION; FERMI GAS; FERMIONS; JOSEPHSON EFFECT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MOLECULES; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; ORDER PARAMETERS; OSCILLATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; ENERGY; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS
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- (c) 2006 The American Physical Society