Abstract
In this letter we predict a novel second-order quantum phase transition of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates coupled with a periodically driven laser field in the resonant case. It is shown that this quantum phase transition from the normal to the tunneling phases can be controlled by the interspecies nonlinear interaction tuned via the magnetic-field–dependent Feshbach resonance technique. Furthermore, it is also demonstrated that this quantum phase transition can be detected by measuring the ground-state population imbalance between two condensates.