Spin squeezing of a dipolar Bose gas in a double-well potential

The spin-squeezing dynamics of a quasi-one-dimensional dipolar Bose gas trapped in a double-well potential is studied by employing the method of the multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree for bosons. We find that optimal squeezing generated by the dipolar interaction can be improved over the one-axis twisting limit, and this squeezing is much stronger than that obtained by the contact interaction. Moreover, natural orbital-related squeezing can be controlled by the direction of the dipole moment, which provides control for storing the optimal spin squeezing. The origin of the squeezing as well as the relationship between spin squeezing and the two-order correlation function are also discussed.