Sinusoidal Excitations in Two Component Bose-Einstein Condensates

TL;DR

This paper explores sinusoidal wave solutions in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, demonstrating their control via parameter modulation and analyzing phase transitions in optical lattices.

Contribution

It introduces pure sinusoidal propagating wave solutions in coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations and studies their control and phase transition behavior.

Findings

Existence of sinusoidal wave solutions over a wide parameter range

Controlled excitation of modes via temporal modulation

Observation of superfluid to insulator phase transition in optical lattice

Abstract

The non-linear coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equation governing the dynamics of the two component Bose-Einstein condensate (TBEC) is shown to admit pure sinusoidal, propagating wave solutions in quasi one dimensional geometry. These solutions, which exist for a wide parameter range, are then investigated in the presence of a harmonic oscillator trap with time dependent scattering length. This illustrates the procedure for coherent control of these modes through temporal modulation of the parameters, like scattering length and oscillator frequency. We subsequently analyzed this system in an optical lattice, where the occurrence of an irreversible phase transition from superfluid to insulator phase is seen.