Few-boson tunneling in a double well with spatially modulated interaction

B. Chatterjee; I. Brouzos; P. Schmelcher; Sascha Zöllner

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.82.043619

Few-boson tunneling in a double well with spatially modulated interaction

B. Chatterjee, I. Brouzos, P. Schmelcher, Sascha Zöllner

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Abstract

We study few-boson tunneling in a one-dimensional double well with a spatially modulated interaction. The dynamics changes from Rabi oscillations in the noninteracting case to a highly suppressed tunneling for intermediate coupling strengths followed by a reappearance near the fermionization limit. With extreme interaction inhomogeneity in the regime of strong correlations, we observe tunneling between the higher bands. The dynamics is explained on the basis of the few-body spectrum and stationary eigenstates. For a higher number of particles N≥3, it is shown that the inhomogeneity of the interaction can be tuned to generate tunneling resonances. Finally, a tilted double well and its interplay with the interaction asymmetry are discussed.

Original language	English
Journal	Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume	84
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	043619
Number of pages	10
ISSN	2469-9926
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.82.043619
Publication status	Published - 22 Oct 2010

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