Macroscopic squeezing in quasi-one-dimensional two-component Bose gases

Abstract

Abstract We investigate the ground-state properties and the dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional quantum droplets of binary Bose condensates by employing the Gaussian state theory. We show that there exists three quantum phases for the ground states of the droplets, including a coherent state and two macroscopic squeezed states. The phase transition between two macroscopic squeezed states is of the third order; while between the macroscopic squeezed state and the coherent is of a crossover type. As for the dynamics, we find that, by tuning the reduced scattering length to a negative value, a significant fraction of the atoms can be transferred from a coherent state to a macroscopic squeezed state. Our studies open up the possibility of generating macroscopic squeezed states using binary condensates.