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Four-mode Bose-Hubbard model with two greatly differing tunneling rates as a model for the Josephson oscillation of heat

M. P. Strzys, J. R. Anglin

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.043616 · Physical Review A

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Abstract

As a model for mesoscopic quantum systems in thermal contact, we consider a four-mode Bose-Hubbard model with two greatly differing tunneling rates. By a series of Holstein-Primakoff transformations, we show that the low-frequency dynamics of this system consists in general of two slow Josephson oscillations, rather than the single slow mode predicted by linear Bogoliubov theory. We identify the second slow Josephson oscillation as a heat exchange mode analogous to second sound.

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