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By Tarik Berrada

This thesis demonstrates a whole Mach–Zehnder interferometer with interacting Bose–Einstein condensates limited on an atom chip. It depends on the coherent manipulation of atoms trapped in a magnetic double-well capability, for which the writer built a singular kind of beam splitter. Particle-wave duality allows the development of interferometers for topic waves, which enhance optical interferometers in precision dimension units, either for technological purposes and basic checks. This calls for the improvement of atom-optics analogues to beam splitters, part shifters and recombiners.

Particle interactions within the Bose–Einstein condensate bring about a nonlinearity, absent in photon optics. this can be exploited to generate a non-classical nation with lowered atom-number fluctuations contained in the interferometer. This country is then used to check the interaction-induced dephasing of the quantum superposition. The ensuing coherence instances are stumbled on to be an element of 3 longer than anticipated for coherent states, highlighting the possibility of entanglement as a source for quantum-enhanced metrology.

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8). These states are often said to be fragmented, meaning that they cannot be written as a product of single-particle states. 129) In the intermediate regime, both contributions are comparable and the energy spectrum exhibits both a linear and a quadratic part (see Fig. 7). 130) and the energy spectrum is quadratic while at low energy, it is linear. 113) can be linearized and reads ωJ harm = Hˆ BH 2 nˆ 2 φˆ 2 + 2 2 2σn 2σφ . 131) with: √ ω J = 2J 1 + , √ 1+ 2 , σφ = N N σn2 = √ , 4 1+ = U N /2J.

130) and the energy spectrum is quadratic while at low energy, it is linear. 113) can be linearized and reads ωJ harm = Hˆ BH 2 nˆ 2 φˆ 2 + 2 2 2σn 2σφ . 131) with: √ ω J = 2J 1 + , √ 1+ 2 , σφ = N N σn2 = √ , 4 1+ = U N /2J. 135) We identify the Hamiltonian of a 1D harmonic oscillator where the phase plays the role of the position, and the number difference corresponds to the momentum. The dimensionless parameter 1 N 2 in the Josephson regime represents the ratio between interaction energy and tunneling.

2 Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Double Well: Two-Mode Theory … 23 Fig. 6 Schematics and notations for the 2-mode BH model. The two sites are denoted left and right, and are associated to the corresponding bosonic operators a L ,R and a L† ,R . φ L ,R are the wavefunctions associated to the left and right mode (we assume that they do not depend on the occupation of the modes). J represents the strength of tunnel coupling, U L and U R are proportional to the interaction energies in each site. 30), it is clear that the terms in factor of U L and U R correspond to the interaction energies in each mode.

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