Two-mode Phonon Squeezing in Bose-Einstein Condensates for Gravitational Wave Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05051v1
• Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 13:01:10 GMT
• Title: Two-mode Phonon Squeezing in Bose-Einstein Condensates for Gravitational Wave Detection
• Authors: Paul Juschitz
• Abstract summary: The aim of this thesis is to find whether the recently described effect of an oscillating external potential on a uniform BEC can be exploited to generate two-mode squeezed phonon states. The considered mechanism could find applications not only in the gravitational wave detector that originally motivated this work, but more generally in the field of quantum metrology based on ultracold atoms.
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• Abstract: Squeezed, nonclassical states are an integral tool of quantum metrology due to their ability to push the sensitivity of a measurement apparatus beyond the limits of classical states. While their creation in light has become a standard technique, the production of squeezed states of the collective excitations in gases of ultracold atoms, the phonons of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), is a comparably recent problem. This task is continuously gaining relevance with a growing number of proposals for BEC-based quantum metrological devices and the possibility to apply them in the detection of gravitational waves. The objective of this thesis is to find whether the recently described effect of an oscillating external potential on a uniform BEC can be exploited to generate two-mode squeezed phonon states, given present day technology. This question brings together elements of a range of fields beyond cold atoms, such as general relativity and Efimov physics. To answer it, the full transformation caused by the oscillating potential on an initially thermal phononic state is considered, allowing to find an upper bound for the magnitude of this perturbation as well as to quantify the quality of the final state with respect to its use in metrology. These findings are then applied to existing experiments to judge the feasibility of the squeezing scheme and while the results indicate that they are not well suited for it, a setup is proposed that allows for its efficient implementation and seems within experimental reach. In view of the vast parameter space leaving room for optimization, the considered mechanism could find applications not only in the gravitational wave detector that originally motivated this work, but more generally in the field of quantum metrology based on ultracold atoms.

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