Published December 28, 2018 | Version v1

Optimal control of the transport of Bose-Einstein condensates with atom chips

  • 1. 1ISMO, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Universit ´e Paris-Saclay, F-91405, Orsay cedex, France 2Institut f ¨ ur Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universit ¨ at Hannover, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany 3LICB, CNRS, Universit ´e Bourgogne Franche Comt´ e, 9 Av. A. Savary, BP 47870, F-21078 Dijon cedex, France

Description

Using Optimal Control Theory (OCT), we design fast ramps for the controlled transport of Bose-Einstein
condensates with atom chips’ magnetic traps. These ramps are engineered in the context of precision
atom interferometry experiments and support transport over large distances, typically of the order of
1 mm, i.e. about 1,000 times the size of the atomic clouds, yet with durations not exceeding 200 ms. We
show that with such transport durations of the order of the trap period, one can recover the ground state
of the final trap at the end of the transport. The performance of the OCT procedure is compared to that
of Shortcut-To-Adiabaticity (STA) protocols and the respective advantages / disadvantages of the OCT
treatment over the STA one are discussed.

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Is supplement to
arXiv:1812.10999v1 (arXiv)

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European Commission
Q-Sense - Quantum sensors - from the lab to the field 691156