Relationship between spin squeezing and single-particle coherence in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with Josephson coupling

Abstract

We investigate spin squeezing of a two-mode boson system with a Josephson coupling. An exact relation between the squeezing and the single-particle coherence at the maximal-squeezing time is discovered, which provides a more direct way to measure the squeezing by readout of the coherence in atomic interference experiments. We prove explicitly that the strongest squeezing is along the ${J}_{z}$ axis, indicating the appearance of an atom number-squeezed state. Power laws of the strongest squeezing and the optimal coupling with particle number $N$ are obtained based upon a wide range of numerical simulations.