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Q: Fachverband Quantenoptik und Photonik

Q 27: Poster Quantengase

Q 27.23: Poster

Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 16:30–19:00, Poster C2

Degenerate ground states in a 0-π-junction of an atomic gas — •Matthias Mutschler, Oliver Crasser, Reinhold Walser, and Wolfgang P. Schleich — Institut für Quantenphysik, Universität Ulm, D-89081 Ulm

0-π-Josephson-junctions are an important tool and research subject in superconductivity [1]. In the present contribution we examine an analogous model realised with a two-componend bosonic atomic gas which is trapped in a quasi one-dimensional double well potential. Within a simple four-mode approximation we obtain an system analogous to a 0-π-junction. We present an analysis of the ground states and tunneling effects between the degenerated ground state manifold.

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