{"title":"Macroscopic quantum tunnelling of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a Cubic-Plus-Quadratic Well","authors":"Rui-Bin Liu, Mingyang Liu, Shizhong Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s43673-025-00144-y","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We study the macroscopic quantum tunnelling of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a cubic-plus-quadratic well that was approximately realized in recent experiment. We utilise the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method to investigate the effect of the inter-atomic interactions on the tunnelling rate of a quasi-bound condensate. We find that the existence of repulsive interaction enhances the quantum tunnelling of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100007,"journal":{"name":"AAPPS Bulletin","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s43673-025-00144-y.pdf","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AAPPS Bulletin","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43673-025-00144-y","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We study the macroscopic quantum tunnelling of an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a cubic-plus-quadratic well that was approximately realized in recent experiment. We utilise the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method to investigate the effect of the inter-atomic interactions on the tunnelling rate of a quasi-bound condensate. We find that the existence of repulsive interaction enhances the quantum tunnelling of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate.