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Published on: March 30, 2017
Strict Time-Resolved Steady States via Affine-Eigenstate Mapping: A Robust Framework for Ultracold Atom-Molecule
Yanhang Chen1, Gaoyang Du1, Chenglong Yang2
1Leicester International Institute, Dalian University of Technology, Panjin 124221, China.
Abstract:
We propose a theoretical framework based on an affine-eigenstate transformation for analyzing ultracold atom-molecule conversion dynamics with particle loss. The transformation maps the mean-field dynamics to an effective two-mode representation in which fixed points, Bloch-sphere trajectories, and linear stability can be examined in a common set of variables. We give the derivation of the transformed Hamiltonian and specify the invertibility and conjugate-condition requirements under which the mapping is used. Within this representation, we distinguish ordinary, pseudo, and strict self-trapping regimes. The strict regime is associated with the balanced condition S=0 in the transformed variables; in the corresponding linearized dissipative flow, the leading attractor/repeller bifurcation term controlled by SΓ- vanishes, explaining the observed robustness against atom- and molecule-loss imbalance. We also introduce von Neumann and linear-entropy diagnostics for future mixed-state or ensemble descriptions in the transformed two-level representation, and we provide an inverse reconstruction procedure for preparing initial states that realize strict self-trapping. Finally, we discuss the limits of the mean-field and Markovian approximations and outline how finite-particle simulations and phase-modulated control protocols could connect this mechanism to decoherence-resilient quantum simulations and information-processing architectures.
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