Matter-wave solitons in ultracold quantum gases

Speaker
Lev Khaykovich - Physics, BIU
Date
10/11/2013 - 10:30Add to Calendar 2013-11-10 10:30:00 2013-11-10 10:30:00 Matter-wave solitons in ultracold quantum gases I will overview the on-going research of matter-wave solitons in dilute atomic gases. After a brief discussion of the experimental status and basic theory, I shall concentrate on quantum mechanical properties of these objects, namely on creation of quantum superposition and entangled states via scattering of solitons off the potential barrier. I will compare between quantum and mean-field descriptions of the system and will consider the possibility to distinguish these states from the classical statisitical mixtures.  אוניברסיטת בר-אילן - Department of Mathematics mathoffice@math.biu.ac.il Asia/Jerusalem public
Abstract

I will overview the on-going research of matter-wave solitons in dilute atomic gases. After a brief discussion of the experimental status and basic theory, I shall concentrate on quantum mechanical properties of these objects, namely on creation of quantum superposition and entangled states via scattering of solitons off the potential barrier. I will compare between quantum and mean-field descriptions of the system and will consider the possibility to distinguish these states from the classical statisitical mixtures. 

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