Spectral properties of coupled Bose-Einstein condensates

Roberto Franzosi, Vittorio Penna
2001 Physical Review A. Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics  
We investigate the energy spectrum structure of a system of two (identical) interacting bosonic wells occupied by N bosons within the Schwinger realization of the angular momentum. This picture enables us to recognize the symmetry properties of the system Hamiltonian H and to use them for characterizing the energy eigenstates. Also, it allows for the derivation of the single-boson picture which is shown to be the background picture naturally involved by the secular equation for H. After
more » ... the corresponding eigenvalue equation, we recast it in a recursive N-dependent form which suggests a way to generate the level doublets (characterizing the H spectrum) via suitable inner parameters. Finally, we show how the presence of doublets in the spectrum allows to recover, in the classical limit, the symmetry breaking effect that characterizes the system classically.
doi:10.1103/physreva.63.043609 fatcat:ydx2dgn2mbdvlinqrndzwx3h5u