Sagnac interferometry using bright matter-wave solitons

JL Helm, SL Cornish, SA Gardiner - Physical review letters, 2015 - APS
We use an effective one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study bright matter-wave
solitons held in a tightly confining toroidal trapping potential, in a rotating frame of reference …

Splitting bright matter-wave solitons on narrow potential barriers: Quantum to classical transition and applications to interferometry

JL Helm, SJ Rooney, C Weiss, SA Gardiner - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We study bright solitons in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation as they are split and recombined in
a low-energy system. We present analytic results determining the general region in which a …

Scattering bright solitons: Quantum versus mean-field behavior

B Gertjerenken, TP Billam, L Khaykovich… - Physical Review A—Atomic …, 2012 - APS
We investigate scattering bright solitons off a potential using both analytical and numerical
methods. Our paper focuses on low kinetic energies for which differences between the mean …

Bright-soliton quantum superpositions: signatures of high-and low-fidelity states

B Gertjerenken - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2013 - APS
Scattering quantum bright solitons off barriers has been predicted to lead to nonlocal
quantum superpositions, in particular the NOON state. The focus of this paper lies on …

From short-time diffusive to long-time ballistic dynamics: The unusual center-of-mass motion of quantum bright solitons

C Weiss, SA Gardiner, HP Breuer - Physical Review A, 2015 - APS
Brownian motion is ballistic on short time scales and diffusive on long time scales. Our
theoretical investigations indicate that one can observe the exact opposite—an “anomalous …

Entangling two distinguishable quantum bright solitons via collisions

TP Billam, CL Blackley, B Gertjerenken… - Journal of Physics …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The generation of mesoscopic Bell states via collisions of distinguishable bright solitons has
been suggested in Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 100406 (2013). Here, we extend our former …

Phase-matching condition for enhanced entanglement of colliding indistinguishable quantum bright solitons in a harmonic trap

DIH Holdaway, C Weiss, SA Gardiner - Physical Review A, 2014 - APS
We investigate finite number effects in collisions between two states of an initially well
defined number of identical bosons with attractive contact interactions, oscillating in the …

Finite-temperature phase transition in a homogeneous one-dimensional gas of attractive bosons

C Weiss - arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.09070, 2016 - arxiv.org
In typical one-dimensional models the Mermin-Wagner theorem forbids long range order,
thus preventing finite-temperature phase transitions. We find a finite-temperature phase …