Phase-diffusion dynamics in weakly coupled bose-einstein condensates

Maya Chuchem

Ben-Gurion University, Department Physics, Beer-Sheva, Israel

We study the phase-sensitivity of collisional phase-diffusion between weakly coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, using a semiclassical picture of the two-mode Bose-Hubbard model. When weak-coupling is allowed, zero relative phase locking is attained in the Josephson-Fock transition regime, whereas a π relative phase is only locked in Rabi-Josephson point. Our analytic semiclassical estimates agree well with the numerical results.

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