Stable production of a strongly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate via mode-matching

Abstract

We describe a diabatic protocol to prepare a strongly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in a regime where neither an adiabatic ramp nor a direct diabatic quench are desirable. This protocol is expected to achieve a nearly unit population transfer to the strongly-interacting ground state for realistic experimental parameters for $^{85}$Rb. The protocol matches the initial and final density profiles by modifying the trap along with the scattering length during the quench. The protocol should reveal several properties of the strongly-interacting Bose gas, and enable further investigation of beyond mean-field corrections to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.