Mesoscopic Dynamical Differences from Quantum State Preparation in a Bose-Hubbard Trimer

M. K. Olsen, T. W. Neely and A. S. Bradley

Conventional wisdom is that quantum effects will tend to disappear as the number of quanta in a system increases, and the evolution of a system will become closer to that described by mean-field classical equations. In this Letter we combine newly developed theoretical and experimental techniques to propose and analyze an experiment using a Bose-Hubbard trimer where the opposite is the case. We find that differences in the preparation of a centrally evacuated trimer can lead to readily observable differences in the subsequent dynamics which increase with system size. Importantly, these differences can be detected by the simple measurements of atomic number.

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.230406

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