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Poster Session III

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Thursday June 19 Session S00 Oregon Convention Center:, Exhibit Hall E
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Nonlinear Self-Trapping Observed in DC Josephson-Junction Experiments

Poster 109
Presenter: Corey Halverson (Washington State University)
Authors: Colby Schimelfenig (Washington State University), Federico Serrano (Washington State University), Annesh Mukhopadhyay (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Qingze Guan (Washington State University), Peter Engels (Washington State University)

Self-trapping is a phenomenon associated with the nonlinear nature of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs). We present a sequence of experiments providing evidence for nonlinear self-trapping in the context of a DC Josephson junction in momentum space. This setting is realized by combining Raman induced spin-orbit coupling with an additional optical lattice. Dynamics are induced by suitable ramp or quench protocols and are monitored using spin- and momentum-resolved imaging. This study explores self-trapping from a macroscopic perspective, where self-trapping has implications for quantum fluctuations, phase transition dynamics, and atomic band structures.

Funding acknowledgement

We acknowledge funding from NSF under grant PHY-2207588.Support from National Science Foundation through grant number PHY-2409600 is acknowledged.

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