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Horvath M, Dhar S, Das A, Frye MD, Guo Y, Hutson JM, Landini M, Nägerl HC. Bose-Einstein condensation of non-ground-state caesium atoms. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3739. [PMID: 38702339 PMCID: PMC11068738 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47760-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2023] [Accepted: 04/10/2024] [Indexed: 05/06/2024] Open
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Bose-Einstein condensates of ultracold atoms serve as low-entropy sources for a multitude of quantum-science applications, ranging from quantum simulation and quantum many-body physics to proof-of-principle experiments in quantum metrology and quantum computing. For stability reasons, in the majority of cases the energetically lowest-lying atomic spin state is used. Here, we report the Bose-Einstein condensation of caesium atoms in the Zeeman-excited mf = 2 state, realizing a non-ground-state Bose-Einstein condensate with tunable interactions and tunable loss. We identify two regions of magnetic field in which the two-body relaxation rate is low enough that condensation is possible. We characterize the phase transition and quantify the loss processes, finding unusually high three-body losses in one of the two regions. Our results open up new possibilities for the mixing of quantum-degenerate gases, for polaron and impurity physics, and in particular for the study of impurity transport in strongly correlated one-dimensional quantum wires.
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- Milena Horvath
- Institut für Experimentalphysik und Zentrum für Quantenphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik und Zentrum für Quantenphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Joint Quantum Centre (JQC) Durham-Newcastle, Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1~3LE, United Kingdom
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- Joint Quantum Centre (JQC) Durham-Newcastle, Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik und Zentrum für Quantenphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Joint Quantum Centre (JQC) Durham-Newcastle, Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik und Zentrum für Quantenphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik und Zentrum für Quantenphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, Innsbruck, Austria.
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Houwman JJA, Baillie D, Blakie PB, Natale G, Ferlaino F, Mark MJ. Measurement of the Excitation Spectrum of a Dipolar Gas in the Macrodroplet Regime. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2024; 132:103401. [PMID: 38518353 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.103401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/28/2023] [Revised: 11/27/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 03/24/2024]
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The excitation spectrum of a cigar-shaped strongly dipolar quantum gas at the crossover from a Bose-Einstein condensate to a trapped macrodroplet is predicted to exhibit peculiar features-a strong upward shift of low momentum excitation energies together with a strong multiband response for high momenta. By performing Bragg spectroscopy over a wide range of momenta, we observe both key elements and also confirm the predicted stiffening of excitation modes when approaching the macrodroplet regime. Our measurements are in good agreement with numerical calculations taking into account finite size effects.
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- J J A Houwman
- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Experimentalphysik, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Quantum Science, and The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Department of Physics, Centre for Quantum Science, and The Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Experimentalphysik, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Experimentalphysik, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Experimentalphysik, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Malomed BA. Discrete and Semi-Discrete Multidimensional Solitons and Vortices: Established Results and Novel Findings. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 26:137. [PMID: 38392392 PMCID: PMC10887582 DOI: 10.3390/e26020137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2024] [Revised: 01/26/2024] [Accepted: 01/28/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
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This article presents a concise survey of basic discrete and semi-discrete nonlinear models, which produce two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) solitons, and a summary of the main theoretical and experimental results obtained for such solitons. The models are based on the discrete nonlinear Schrödinger (DNLS) equations and their generalizations, such as a system of discrete Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations with the Lee-Huang-Yang corrections, the 2D Salerno model (SM), DNLS equations with long-range dipole-dipole and quadrupole-quadrupole interactions, a system of coupled discrete equations for the second-harmonic generation with the quadratic (χ(2)) nonlinearity, a 2D DNLS equation with a superlattice modulation opening mini-gaps, a discretized NLS equation with rotation, a DNLS coupler and its PT-symmetric version, a system of DNLS equations for the spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) binary Bose-Einstein condensate, and others. The article presents a review of the basic species of multidimensional discrete modes, including fundamental (zero-vorticity) and vortex solitons, their bound states, gap solitons populating mini-gaps, symmetric and asymmetric solitons in the conservative and PT-symmetric couplers, cuspons in the 2D SM, discrete SOC solitons of the semi-vortex and mixed-mode types, 3D discrete skyrmions, and some others.
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- Boris A Malomed
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica 1000000, Chile
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Xu X, Zhao F, Huang J, He H, Zhang L, Chen Z, Nie Z, Malomed BA, Li Y. Semidiscrete optical vortex droplets in quasi-phase-matched photonic crystals. OPTICS EXPRESS 2023; 31:38343-38354. [PMID: 38017942 DOI: 10.1364/oe.506130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2023] [Accepted: 10/18/2023] [Indexed: 11/30/2023]
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What we believe is a new scheme for producing semidiscrete self-trapped vortices ("swirling photon droplets") in photonic crystals with competing quadratic (χ(2)) and self-defocusing cubic (χ(3)) nonlinearities is proposed. The photonic crystal is designed with a striped structure, in the form of spatially periodic modulation of the χ(2) susceptibility, which is imposed by the quasi-phase-matching technique. Unlike previous realizations of semidiscrete optical modes in composite media, built as combinations of continuous and arrayed discrete waveguides, the semidiscrete vortex "droplets" are produced here in the fully continuous medium. This work reveals that the system supports two types of semidiscrete vortex droplets, viz., onsite- and intersite-centered ones, which feature, respectively, odd and even numbers of stripes, N. Stability areas for the states with different values of N are identified in the system's parameter space. Some stability areas overlap with each other, giving rise to the multistability of states with different N. The coexisting states are mutually degenerate, featuring equal values of the Hamiltonian and propagation constant. An experimental scheme to realize the droplets is outlined, suggesting new possibilities for the long-distance transmission of nontrivial vortex beams in nonlinear media.
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Spada G, Pilati S, Giorgini S. Attractive Solution of Binary Bose Mixtures: Liquid-Vapor Coexistence and Critical Point. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:173404. [PMID: 37955467 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.173404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/27/2023] [Revised: 07/06/2023] [Accepted: 09/29/2023] [Indexed: 11/14/2023]
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We study the thermodynamic behavior of attractive binary Bose mixtures using exact path-integral Monte Carlo methods. Our focus is on the regime of interspecies interactions where the ground state is in a self-bound liquid phase, stabilized by beyond mean-field effects. We calculate the isothermal curves in the pressure vs density plane for different values of the attraction strength and establish the extent of the coexistence region between liquid and vapor using the Maxwell construction. Notably, within the coexistence region, Bose-Einstein condensation occurs in a discontinuous way as the density jumps from the normal gas to the superfluid liquid phase. Furthermore, we determine the critical point where the line of first-order transition ends and investigate the behavior of the density discontinuity in its vicinity. We also point out that the density discontinuity at the transition could be observed in experiments of mixtures in traps.
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- G Spada
- Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation, CNR-INO and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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- School of Science and Technology, Physics Division, Università di Camerino, 62032 Camerino, Italy
- INFN, Sezione di Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Pitaevskii Center on Bose-Einstein Condensation, CNR-INO and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
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Liu B, Cai X, Qin X, Jiang X, Xie J, Malomed BA, Li Y. Ring-shaped quantum droplets with hidden vorticity in a radially periodic potential. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:044210. [PMID: 37978625 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.044210] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 11/19/2023]
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We study the stability and characteristics of two-dimensional circular quantum droplets (QDs) with embedded hidden vorticity (HV), i.e., opposite angular momenta in two components, formed by binary Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) trapped in a radially periodic potential. The system is modeled by the Gross-Pitaevskii equations with the Lee-Huang-Yang terms, which represent the higher-order self-repulsion induced by quantum fluctuations around the mean-field state, and a potential which is a periodic function of the radial coordinate. Ring-shaped QDs with high winding numbers (WNs) of the HV type, which are trapped in particular circular troughs of the radial potential, are produced by means of the imaginary-time-integration method. Effects of the depth and period of the potential on these QD states are studied. The trapping capacity of individual circular troughs is identified. Stable compound states in the form of nested multiring patterns are constructed too, including ones with WNs of opposite signs. The stably coexisting ring-shaped QDs with different WNs can be used for the design of BEC-based data-storage schemes.
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- Bin Liu
- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Center for Light-Matter Interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
- Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Joint Laboratory for Intelligent Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Technology, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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He L, Li H, Yi W, Yu ZQ. Quantum Criticality of Liquid-Gas Transition in a Binary Bose Mixture. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:193001. [PMID: 37243630 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.193001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2022] [Revised: 02/19/2023] [Accepted: 04/17/2023] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Quantum liquid, in the form of a self-bound droplet, is stabilized by a subtle balance between the mean-field contribution and quantum fluctuations. While a liquid-gas transition is expected when such a balance is broken, it remains elusive whether liquid-gas critical points exist in the quantum regime. Here, we study the quantum criticality in a binary Bose mixture undergoing the liquid-gas transition. We show that, beyond a narrow stability window of the self-bound liquid, a liquid-gas coexistence persists, which eventually transits into a homogeneous mixture. Importantly, we identify two distinct critical points where the liquid-gas coexistence terminates. These critical points are characterized by rich critical behaviors in their vicinity, including divergent susceptibility, unique phonon-mode softening, and enhanced density correlations. The liquid-gas transition and the critical points can be readily explored in ultracold atoms confined to a box potential. Our work highlights the thermodynamic approach as a powerful tool in revealing the quantum liquid-gas criticality, and paves the way for further studies of critical phenomena in quantum liquids.
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- Li He
- College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
- CAS Center For Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, Hefei 230026, China
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- Institute of Theoretical Physics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
- State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics and Quantum Optics Devices, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China
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Sánchez-Baena J, Politi C, Maucher F, Ferlaino F, Pohl T. Heating a dipolar quantum fluid into a solid. Nat Commun 2023; 14:1868. [PMID: 37015907 PMCID: PMC10073146 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-37207-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2022] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 04/06/2023] Open
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Raising the temperature of a material enhances the thermal motion of particles. Such an increase in thermal energy commonly leads to the melting of a solid into a fluid and eventually vaporises the liquid into a gaseous phase of matter. Here, we study the finite-temperature physics of dipolar quantum fluids and find surprising deviations from this general phenomenology. In particular, we describe how heating a dipolar superfluid from near-zero temperatures can induce a phase transition to a supersolid state with a broken translational symmetry. We discuss the observation of this effect in experiments on ultracold dysprosium atoms, which opens the door for exploring the unusual thermodynamics of dipolar quantum fluids.
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- J Sánchez-Baena
- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
- Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord B4-B5, 08034, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark
- Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears & IAC-3, Campus UIB, E-07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000, Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Song J, Yan Z, Malomed BA. Formations and dynamics of two-dimensional spinning asymmetric quantum droplets controlled by a PT-symmetric potential. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2023; 33:033141. [PMID: 37003809 DOI: 10.1063/5.0138420] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2022] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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In this paper, vortex solitons are produced for a variety of 2D spinning quantum droplets (QDs) in a PT-symmetric potential, modeled by the amended Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Lee-Huang-Yang corrections. In particular, exact QD states are obtained under certain parameter constraints, providing a guide to finding the respective generic family. In a parameter region of the unbroken PT symmetry, different families of QDs originating from the linear modes are obtained in the form of multipolar and vortex droplets at low and high values of the norm, respectively, and their stability is investigated. In the spinning regime, QDs become asymmetric above a critical rotation frequency, most of them being stable. The effect of the PT-symmetric potential on the spinning and nonspinning QDs is explored by varying the strength of the gain-loss distribution. Generally, spinning QDs trapped in the PT-symmetric potential exhibit asymmetry due to the energy flow affected by the interplay of the gain-loss distribution and rotation. Finally, interactions between spinning or nonspinning QDs are explored, exhibiting elastic collisions under certain conditions.
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- Jin Song
- KLMM, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- KLMM, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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Kopyciński J, Łebek M, Górecki W, Pawłowski K. Ultrawide Dark Solitons and Droplet-Soliton Coexistence in a Dipolar Bose Gas with Strong Contact Interactions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:043401. [PMID: 36763437 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.043401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2022] [Revised: 11/10/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We look into dark solitons in a quasi-1D dipolar Bose gas and in a quantum droplet. We derive the analytical solitonic solution of a Gross-Pitaevskii-like equation accounting for beyond mean-field effects. The results show there is a certain critical value of the dipolar interactions, for which the width of a motionless soliton diverges. Moreover, there is a peculiar solution of the motionless soliton with a nonzero density minimum. We also present the energy spectrum of these solitons with an additional excitation subbranch appearing. Finally, we perform a series of numerical experiments revealing the coexistence of a dark soliton inside a quantum droplet.
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- Jakub Kopyciński
- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
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- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Center for Theoretical Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Al. Lotników 32/46, 02-668 Warsaw, Poland
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Morera I, Ołdziejewski R, Astrakharchik GE, Juliá-Díaz B. Superexchange Liquefaction of Strongly Correlated Lattice Dipolar Bosons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:023602. [PMID: 36706388 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.023602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2022] [Revised: 11/03/2022] [Accepted: 12/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We propose a mechanism for liquid formation in strongly correlated lattice systems. The mechanism is based on an interplay between long-range attraction and superexchange processes. As an example, we study dipolar bosons in one-dimensional optical lattices. We present a perturbative theory and validate it in comparison with full density-matrix renormalization group simulations for the energetic and structural properties of different phases of the system, i.e., self-bound Mott insulator, liquid, and gas. We analyze the nonequilibrium properties and calculate the dynamic structure factor. Its structure differs in compressible and insulating phases. In particular, the low-energy excitations in compressible phases are linear phonons. We extract the speed of sound and analyze its dependence on dipolar interaction and density. We show that it exhibits a nontrivial behavior owing to the breaking of Galilean invariance. We argue that an experimental detection of this previously unknown quantum liquid could provide a fingerprint of the superexchange process and open intriguing possibilities for investigating non-Galilean invariant liquids.
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- Ivan Morera
- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, 85748 Garching, Germany
- Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Schellingstrasse 4, 80799 Munich, Germany
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord B4-B5, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
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Al Sakkaf L, Al Khawaja U. Reflectionless potentials and resonant scattering of flat-top and thin-top solitons. Phys Rev E 2023; 107:014202. [PMID: 36797884 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.107.014202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/16/2022] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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We identify a class of potentials for which the scattering of flat-top solitons and thin-top solitons of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation with dual nonlinearity can be reflectionless. The scattering is characterized by sharp resonances between regimes of full transmission and full quantum reflection. Perturbative expansion in terms of the magnitude of radiation losses leads to the general form of reflectionless potentials. Simulating the scattering of flat-top solitons and thin-top solitons confirms the reflectionless feature of these potentials.
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- L Al Sakkaf
- Department of Physics, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 15551, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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- Department of Physics, United Arab Emirates University, P.O. Box 15551, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
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Chomaz L, Ferrier-Barbut I, Ferlaino F, Laburthe-Tolra B, Lev BL, Pfau T. Dipolar physics: a review of experiments with magnetic quantum gases. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2022; 86:026401. [PMID: 36583342 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aca814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/02/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Since the achievement of quantum degeneracy in gases of chromium atoms in 2004, the experimental investigation of ultracold gases made of highly magnetic atoms has blossomed. The field has yielded the observation of many unprecedented phenomena, in particular those in which long-range and anisotropic dipole-dipole interactions (DDIs) play a crucial role. In this review, we aim to present the aspects of the magnetic quantum-gas platform that make it unique for exploring ultracold and quantum physics as well as to give a thorough overview of experimental achievements. Highly magnetic atoms distinguish themselves by the fact that their electronic ground-state configuration possesses a large electronic total angular momentum. This results in a large magnetic moment and a rich electronic transition spectrum. Such transitions are useful for cooling, trapping, and manipulating these atoms. The complex atomic structure and large dipolar moments of these atoms also lead to a dense spectrum of resonances in their two-body scattering behaviour. These resonances can be used to control the interatomic interactions and, in particular, the relative importance of contact over dipolar interactions. These features provide exquisite control knobs for exploring the few- and many-body physics of dipolar quantum gases. The study of dipolar effects in magnetic quantum gases has covered various few-body phenomena that are based on elastic and inelastic anisotropic scattering. Various many-body effects have also been demonstrated. These affect both the shape, stability, dynamics, and excitations of fully polarised repulsive Bose or Fermi gases. Beyond the mean-field instability, strong dipolar interactions competing with slightly weaker contact interactions between magnetic bosons yield new quantum-stabilised states, among which are self-bound droplets, droplet assemblies, and supersolids. Dipolar interactions also deeply affect the physics of atomic gases with an internal degree of freedom as these interactions intrinsically couple spin and atomic motion. Finally, long-range dipolar interactions can stabilise strongly correlated excited states of 1D gases and also impact the physics of lattice-confined systems, both at the spin-polarised level (Hubbard models with off-site interactions) and at the spinful level (XYZ models). In the present manuscript, we aim to provide an extensive overview of the various related experimental achievements up to the present.
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- Lauriane Chomaz
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Physikalisches Institut der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
- Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 91127 Palaiseau, France
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstrasse 25, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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- Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
- CNRS, UMR 7538, LPL, F-93430 Villetaneuse, France
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- Departments of Physics and Applied Physics and Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, United States of America
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70550 Stuttgart, Germany
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Chen ZB, Li JL, Cong SL. High-partial-wave separable potential method for investigating Feshbach resonances of ultracold atoms. Chem Phys Lett 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2022.140125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Van der Waals interactions regulating the hydration of 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine, the constructing monomer of biocompatible polymers. Sci Rep 2022; 12:20393. [PMID: 36437358 PMCID: PMC9701782 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-24841-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Accepted: 11/21/2022] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Van der Waals (VDW) interactions provide fantastic properties for biological systems that function at room temperature. The VDW interaction, which primarily contributes to weak hydrogen bonding, is expected to play a key role in regulating hydrophobic hydration to express the biologically inert biocompatible function of polymerized MPCs (2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine). This report explores at the molecular level the biologically inert function of polymerized MPCs through an array of vibrational spectroscopic and computational characterization of MPC monomers, as temperature-dependent change of intramolecular weak hydrogen bonding. Synchrotron Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy and terahertz time-domain spectroscopy were used to investigate temperature-dependent spectral changes in the low frequency vibrations of the MPC over the temperature range from cryogenic to room temperature, and the results were analysed by highly reliable well-established density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Complicated spectral features in the low frequency energy region and the uncertain conformations of the MPC in the amorphous powder state are clearly resolved under a polarizable continuum model and dispersion correction to pure DFT calculations.
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Weber number and the outcome of binary collisions between quantum droplets. Sci Rep 2022; 12:18467. [PMID: 36323755 PMCID: PMC9630383 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-22904-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2022] [Accepted: 10/20/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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A theoretical analysis of binary collisions of quantum droplets under feasible experimental conditions is reported. Droplets formed from degenerate dilute Bose gases made up from binary mixtures of ultracold atoms are considered. Reliable expressions for the surface tension of the droplets are introduced based on a study of low energy excitations of their ground state within the random phase approximation. Their relevance is evaluated considering an estimation of the expected excitation energy having in mind the Thouless variational theorem. The surface tension expressions allow calculating the Weber number of the droplets involved in the collisions. Several regimes on the outcomes of the binary frontal collisions that range from the coalescence of the quantum droplets to their disintegration into smaller droplets are identified. Atoms losses of the droplets derived from self-evaporation and three-body scattering are quantified for both homo- and hetero-nuclear mixtures. Their control is mandatory for the observation of some interesting effects arising from droplets collisions.
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Steinberg AB, Maucher F, Gurevich SV, Thiele U. Exploring bifurcations in Bose-Einstein condensates via phase field crystal models. CHAOS (WOODBURY, N.Y.) 2022; 32:113112. [PMID: 36456347 DOI: 10.1063/5.0101401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Accepted: 10/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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To facilitate the analysis of pattern formation and the related phase transitions in Bose-Einstein condensates, we present an explicit approximate mapping from the nonlocal Gross-Pitaevskii equation with cubic nonlinearity to a phase field crystal (PFC) model. This approximation is valid close to the superfluid-supersolid phase transition boundary. The simplified PFC model permits the exploration of bifurcations and phase transitions via numerical path continuation employing standard software. While revealing the detailed structure of the bifurcations present in the system, we demonstrate the existence of localized states in the PFC approximation. Finally, we discuss how higher-order nonlinearities change the structure of the bifurcation diagram representing the transitions found in the system.
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- A B Steinberg
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Departament de Física, Universitat de les Illes Balears and IAC-3, Campus UIB, E-07122 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Strasse 9, 48149 Münster, Germany
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Pathak MR, Nath A. Droplet to soliton crossover at negative temperature in presence of bi-periodic optical lattices. Sci Rep 2022; 12:18248. [PMID: 36309597 PMCID: PMC9617923 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-23026-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2022] [Accepted: 10/24/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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It is shown that the phenomenon of negative temperature essentially occurs in Bose-Einstein condensate due to the realization of the upper bound energy state utilizing a combination of expulsive harmonic oscillator and optical lattice potentials. We study the existence of quantum droplets at negative temperature and droplet-to-soliton crossover in the binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixture in the presence of bi-periodic optical lattices and expulsive-BOL confinements. Based on the beyond mean field approximation, we employ the extended Gross-Pitäevskii equation and calculate the exact analytical form of wavefunction solutions for BOL, expulsive-BOL confinements. An interesting transition of quantum droplets from positive to negative temperatures and the droplet-to-soliton crossover by modulating the disorder in BOL potential are illustrated. The affirmation of such crossover is performed by exploring the profile of atomic condensate density which smoothly transits from being a flat top density in optical lattice confinement to a bright soliton for BOL trap. Further, we confirm the crossover by exploring the energy per particle and the variation in the root mean square size of the condensate with respect to the potential depth of the BOL trap. Eventually, all of this aid us to construct a phase diagram in a space between the amplitude of BOL potential depth and particle number which reveals the formation of droplet and soliton phases. In expulsive-BOL confinement, it is seen that the impact of the expulsive trap is insignificant on atomic condensate density in the droplet phase and it becomes prominent in the soliton region. Further, the variation of total energy reveals that the amplitude of the expulsive oscillator strengthens the droplet phase and leads to an increase in the negative temperature of the considered system.
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- Maitri R Pathak
- Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara Gujarat India, Gandhinagar, 382 028, India
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- Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara Gujarat India, Gandhinagar, 382 028, India.
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Zhao ZB, Chen GH, Liu B, Li YY. Discrete vortex quantum droplets. CHAOS, SOLITONS & FRACTALS 2022; 162:112481. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chaos.2022.112481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/01/2023]
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Argüello-Luengo J, González-Tudela A, González-Cuadra D. Tuning Long-Range Fermion-Mediated Interactions in Cold-Atom Quantum Simulators. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 129:083401. [PMID: 36053702 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.083401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2022] [Revised: 06/10/2022] [Accepted: 07/28/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Engineering long-range interactions in cold-atom quantum simulators can lead to exotic quantum many-body behavior. Fermionic atoms in ultracold atomic mixtures can act as mediators, giving rise to long-range Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida-type interactions characterized by the dimensionality and density of the fermionic gas. Here, we propose several tuning knobs, accessible in current experimental platforms, that allow one to further control the range and shape of the mediated interactions, extending the existing quantum simulation toolbox. In particular, we include an additional optical lattice for the fermionic mediator, as well as anisotropic traps to change its dimensionality in a continuous manner. This allows us to interpolate between power-law and exponential decays, introducing an effective cutoff for the interaction range, as well as to tune the relative interaction strengths at different distances. Finally, we show how our approach allows one to investigate frustrated regimes that were not previously accessible, where symmetry-protected topological phases as well as chiral spin liquids emerge.
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- Javier Argüello-Luengo
- ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Carl Friedrich Gauss 3, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
- Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
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Frölian A, Chisholm CS, Neri E, Cabrera CR, Ramos R, Celi A, Tarruell L. Realizing a 1D topological gauge theory in an optically dressed BEC. Nature 2022; 608:293-297. [PMID: 35948710 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-04943-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/23/2022] [Accepted: 06/07/2022] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Topological gauge theories describe the low-energy properties of certain strongly correlated quantum systems through effective weakly interacting models1,2. A prime example is the Chern-Simons theory of fractional quantum Hall states, where anyonic excitations emerge from the coupling between weakly interacting matter particles and a density-dependent gauge field3. Although in traditional solid-state platforms such gauge theories are only convenient theoretical constructions, engineered quantum systems enable their direct implementation and provide a fertile playground to investigate their phenomenology without the need for strong interactions4. Here, we report the quantum simulation of a topological gauge theory by realizing a one-dimensional reduction of the Chern-Simons theory (the chiral BF theory5-7) in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Using the local conservation laws of the theory, we eliminate the gauge degrees of freedom in favour of chiral matter interactions8-11, which we engineer by synthesizing optically dressed atomic states with momentum-dependent scattering properties. This allows us to reveal the key properties of the chiral BF theory: the formation of chiral solitons and the emergence of an electric field generated by the system itself. Our results expand the scope of quantum simulation to topological gauge theories and open a route to the implementation of analogous gauge theories in higher dimensions12.
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- Anika Frölian
- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.,Institut für Laserphysik, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
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- ICFO - Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain. .,ICREA - Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain.
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Luo Z, Liu Y, Li Y, Batle J, Malomed BA. Stability limits for modes held in alternating trapping-expulsive potentials. Phys Rev E 2022; 106:014201. [PMID: 35974589 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.014201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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We elaborate a scheme of trapping-expulsion management (TEM), in the form of the quadratic potential periodically switching between confinement and expulsion, as a means of stabilization of two-dimensional dynamical states against the backdrop of the critical collapse driven by the cubic self-attraction with strength g. The TEM scheme may be implemented, as spatially or temporally periodic modulations, in optics or BEC, respectively. The consideration is carried out by dint of numerical simulations and variational approximation (VA). In terms of the VA, the dynamics amounts to a nonlinear Ermakov equation, which, in turn, is tantamount to a linear Mathieu equation. Stability boundaries are found as functions of g and parameters of the periodic modulation of the trapping potential. Below the usual collapse threshold, which is known, in the numerical form, as g<g_{c}^{(num)}≈5.85 (in the standard notation), the stability is limited by the onset of the parametric resonance. This stability limit, including the setup with the self-repulsive sign of the cubic term (g<0), is accurately predicted by the VA. At g>g_{c}^{(num)}, the collapse threshold is found with the help of full numerical simulations. The relative increase of g_{c} above g_{c}^{(num)} is ≈1.5%. It is a meaningful result, even if its size is small, because the collapse threshold is a universal constant which is difficult to change.
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- Zhihuan Luo
- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- Department of Applied Physics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China
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- School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Foshan University, Foshan 528000, China
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- CRISP Centre de Recerca Independent de sa Pobla, C. Albéniz 12, 07420 sa Pobla, Balearic Islands, Spain
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, and Center for Light-Matter Interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile
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Ultradilute Quantum Droplets in the Presence of Higher-Order Quantum Fluctuations. ATOMS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/atoms10020064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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We investigate the effects of higher-order quantum fluctuations on the bulk properties of self-bound droplets in three-, two- and one-dimensional binary Bose mixtures using the Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov theory. We calculate higher-order corrections to the equation of state of the droplet at both zero and finite temperatures. We show that our results for the ground-state energy are in a good agreement with recent quantum Monte Carlo simulations in any dimension. Our study extends to the finite temperature case where it is found that thermal fluctuations may destabilize the droplet state and eventually destroy it. In two dimensions, we reveal that the droplet occurs at temperatures well below the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition temperature.
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In the paper, we introduce a new model that addresses the generation of quantum droplets (QDs) in the binary Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) mixture with mutually symmetric spinor components loaded in multi-color optical lattices (MOLs) of commensurate wavelengths and tunable intensities. The considered MOL confinement is the combination of the four-color optical lattice with an exponential periodic trap, which includes the complete set of the Fourier harmonics. Employing the one-dimensional (1D) extended Gross–Pitäevskii equation (eGPE), we calculate the exact analytical form of the wavefunction, MF/BMF nonlinearities, and MOL trap parameters. Utilizing the exact solutions, the formation of supersolid-like spatially periodic matter-wave droplet lattices and superlattices is illustrated under the space-periodic nonlinearity management. The precise positioning of the density maxima/minima of the droplet patterns at the center of the trap and tunable Anderson-like localization are observed by tuning the symmetry and amplitude of the considered MOL trap. The stability of the obtained solution is confirmed using the Vakhitov–Kolokolov (VK) criterion.
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Dynamics of quantum droplets in an external harmonic confinement. Sci Rep 2022; 12:6904. [PMID: 35484174 PMCID: PMC9050709 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-10468-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2021] [Accepted: 03/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Recent theoretical and experimental results show that one-dimensional (1D) weakly interacting atomic Bose-Bose mixtures with repulsive interspecies mean field (MF) interaction are stabilized by attractive quadratic beyond-mean-field (BMF) effects into self-bound quantum droplet (QD) in free space. Here, we construct an exact analytical model to investigate the structure and dynamics of QDs in presence of external harmonic confinement by solving the 1D extended Gross–Pitäevskii equation (eGPE) with temporal variation of MF and BMF interactions. The model provides the analytical form of wavefunction, phase, MF and BMF nonlinearities. The generation of QDs and interesting droplet to soliton transition in presence of regular/expulsive parabolic traps by taking the comparable MF and BMF interactions are illustrated. We derive the phase diagram of the droplet-soliton phase transition between amplitude of MF, BMF interactions and harmonic oscillator frequency. The strength and form of oscillator frequency are identified as key parameter for tuning the compression, fragmentation and transport of droplets. Finally, the stability of the obtained solutions are confirmed from Vakhitov–Kolokolov (VK) criterion and are found stable.
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Bose–Einstein Condensate Dark Matter That Involves Composites. UNIVERSE 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/universe8030187] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Improving the Bose–Einstein condensate model of dark matter through the repulsive three-particle interaction to better reproduce observables such as rotation curves reveals both different thermodynamic phases and few-particle correlations. Using the numerically found solutions of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation for averaging the products of local densities and for calculating thermodynamic functions at zero temperature, it is shown that the few-particle correlations imply a first-order phase transition and are reduced to the product of single-particle averages with a simultaneous increase in pressure, density, and quantum fluctuations. Under given conditions, dark matter exhibits the properties of an ideal gas with an effective temperature determined by quantum fluctuations. Characteristics of oscillations between bound and unbound states of three particles are estimated within a simple random walk approach to qualitatively model the instability of particle complexes. On the other hand, the density-dependent conditions for the formation of composites are analyzed using chemical kinetics without specifying the bonds formed. The obtained results can be extended to the models of multicomponent dark matter consisting of composites formed by particles with a large scattering length.
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Karpov P, Piazza F. Light-Induced Quantum Droplet Phases of Lattice Bosons in Multimode Cavities. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:103201. [PMID: 35333068 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.103201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Multimode optical cavities can be used to implement interatomic interactions which are highly tunable in strength and range. For bosonic atoms trapped in an optical lattice we show that, for any finite range of the cavity-mediated interaction, quantum self-bound droplets dominate the ground state phase diagram. Their size and in turn density is not externally fixed but rather emerges from the competition between local repulsion and finite-range cavity-mediated attraction. We identify two different regimes of the phase diagram. In the strongly glued regime, the interaction range exceeds the droplet size and the physics resembles the one of the standard Bose-Hubbard model in a (self-consistent) external potential, where in the phase diagram two incompressible droplet phases with different filling are separated by one with a superfluid core. In the opposite weakly glued regime, we find instead direct first order transitions between the two incompressible phases, as well as pronounced metastability. The cavity field leaking out of the mirrors can be measured to distinguish between the various types of droplets.
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- P Karpov
- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, Dresden 01187, Germany
- Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Theresienstr. 37, Munich 80333, Germany
- Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), Schellingstr. 4, Munich 80799, Germany
- National University of Science and Technology "MISiS", Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Straße 38, Dresden 01187, Germany
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We investigate the properties of a dilute gas of impurities embedded in an ultracold gas of bosons that forms a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC). This work focuses mainly on the equation of state (EoS) of the impurity gas at zero temperature and the induced interaction between impurities mediated by the host bath. We use perturbative field-theory approaches, such as Hugenholtz–Pines formalism, in the weakly interacting regime. In turn, for strong interactions, we aim at non-perturbative techniques such as quantum–Monte Carlo (QMC) methods. Our findings agree with experimental observations for an ultra dilute gas of impurities, modeled in the framework of the single impurity problem; however, as the density of impurities increases, systematic deviations are displayed with respect to the one-body Bose polaron problem.
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Li J, Zhang Y, Zeng J. Matter-wave gap solitons and vortices in three-dimensional parity-time-symmetric optical lattices. iScience 2022; 25:104026. [PMID: 35345461 PMCID: PMC8957030 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2021] [Revised: 01/17/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Past decades have witnessed the emergence and increasing expansion of parity-time (PT)-symmetric systems in diverse physical fields and beyond as they manifest entirely all-real spectra, although being non-Hermitian. Nonlinear waves in low-dimensional PT-symmetric non-Hermitian systems have recently been explored broadly; however, understanding these systems in higher dimensions remains abstruse and has yet to be revealed. We survey, theoretically and numerically, matter-wave nonlinear gap modes of Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interparticle interactions in three-dimensional PT optical lattices with emphasis on multidimensional gap solitons and vortices. Utilizing direct perturbed simulations, we address the stability and instability areas of both localized modes in the underlying linear band gap spectra. Our study provides deep and consistent understandings of the formation, structural property, and dynamics of coherent localized matter waves supported by PT optical lattices in multidimensional space, thus opening a way for exploring and stabilizing three-dimensional localized gap modes in non-Hermitian systems 3D parity-time (PT)-symmetric optical lattices are used to overcome the collapse of 3D ultracold atoms. 3D matter-wave gap solitons and vortices are found in PT-symmetric optical lattices. Rich properties and dynamics of 3D matter-wave localized modes are disclosed. In-depth soliton physics is provided in 3D non-Hermitian periodic physical systems.
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Hammond A, Lavoine L, Bourdel T. Tunable Three-Body Interactions in Driven Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:083401. [PMID: 35275683 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.083401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2021] [Revised: 01/21/2022] [Accepted: 02/07/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We propose and demonstrate the appearance of an effective attractive three-body interaction in coherently driven two-component Bose-Einstein condensates. It originates from the spinor degree of freedom that is affected by a two-body mean-field shift of the driven transition frequency. Importantly, its strength can be controlled with the Rabi-coupling strength and it does not come with additional losses. In the experiment, the three-body interactions are adjusted to play a predominant role in the equation of state of a cigar-shaped trapped condensate. This is confirmed through two striking observations: a downshift of the radial breathing mode frequency and the radial collapses for positive values of the dressed-state scattering length.
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- A Hammond
- Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 91127 Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 91127 Palaiseau, France
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- Université Paris-Saclay, Institut d'Optique Graduate School, CNRS, Laboratoire Charles Fabry, 91127 Palaiseau, France
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Guijarro G, Astrakharchik GE, Boronat J. Ultradilute Quantum Liquid of Dipolar Atoms in a Bilayer. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:063401. [PMID: 35213182 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.063401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2021] [Revised: 10/07/2021] [Accepted: 01/03/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We show that ultradilute quantum liquids can be formed with ultracold bosonic dipolar atoms in a bilayer geometry. Contrary to previous realizations of ultradilute liquids, there is no need for stabilizing the system with an additional repulsive short-range potential. The advantage of the proposed system is that dipolar interactions on their own are sufficient for creation of a self-bound state and no additional short-range potential is needed for the stabilization. We perform quantum Monte Carlo simulations and find a rich ground-state phase diagram that contains quantum phase transitions between liquid, solid, atomic gas, and molecular gas phases. The stabilization mechanism of the liquid phase is consistent with the microscopic scenario in which the effective dimer-dimer attraction is balanced by an effective three-dimer repulsion. The equilibrium density of the liquid, which is extremely small, can be controlled by the interlayer distance. From the equation of state, we extract the spinodal density, below which the homogeneous system breaks into droplets. Our results offer a new example of a two-dimensional interacting dipolar liquid in a clean and highly controllable setup.
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- G Guijarro
- Departament de Física, Campus Nord B4-B5, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Física, Campus Nord B4-B5, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Física, Campus Nord B4-B5, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
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Weakly-Interacting Bose–Bose Mixtures from the Functional Renormalisation Group. CONDENSED MATTER 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/condmat7010009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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We provide a detailed presentation of the functional renormalisation group (FRG) approach for weakly-interacting Bose–Bose mixtures, including a complete discussion on the RG equations. To test this approach, we examine thermodynamic properties of balanced three-dimensional Bose–Bose gases at zero and finite temperatures and find a good agreement with related works. We also study ground-state energies of repulsive Bose polarons by examining mixtures in the limit of infinite population imbalance. Finally, we discuss future applications of the FRG to novel problems in Bose–Bose mixtures and related systems.
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Sanz J, Frölian A, Chisholm CS, Cabrera CR, Tarruell L. Interaction Control and Bright Solitons in Coherently Coupled Bose-Einstein Condensates. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2022; 128:013201. [PMID: 35061464 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.128.013201] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2019] [Revised: 06/27/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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We demonstrate fast control of the interatomic interactions in a Bose-Einstein condensate by coherently coupling two atomic states with intra- and interstate scattering lengths of opposite signs. We measure the elastic and inelastic scattering properties of the system and find good agreement with a theoretical model describing the interactions between dressed states. In the attractive regime, we observe the formation of bright solitons formed by dressed-state atoms. Finally, we study the response of the system to an interaction quench from repulsive to attractive values, and observe how the resulting modulational instability develops into a bright soliton train.
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- J Sanz
- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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- ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
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Lavoine L, Hammond A, Recati A, Petrov DS, Bourdel T. Beyond-Mean-Field Effects in Rabi-Coupled Two-Component Bose-Einstein Condensate. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:203402. [PMID: 34860048 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.203402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2021] [Revised: 08/09/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We theoretically calculate and experimentally measure the beyond-mean-field (BMF) equation of state in a coherently coupled two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in the regime where averaging of the interspecies and intraspecies coupling constants over the hyperfine composition of the single-particle dressed state predicts the exact cancellation of the two-body interaction. We show that with increasing the Rabi-coupling frequency Ω, the BMF energy density crosses over from the nonanalytic Lee-Huang-Yang scaling ∝n^{5/2} to an expansion in integer powers of density, where, in addition to a two-body BMF term ∝n^{2}sqrt[Ω], there emerges a repulsive three-body contribution ∝n^{3}/sqrt[Ω]. We experimentally evidence these two contributions, thanks to their different scaling with Ω, in the expansion of a Rabi-coupled two-component ^{39}K condensate in a waveguide. By studying the expansion with and without Rabi coupling, we reveal an important feature relevant for observing BMF effects and associated phenomena in mixtures with spin-asymmetric losses: Rabi coupling helps preserve the spin composition and thus prevents the system from drifting away from the point of the vanishing mean field.
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- L Lavoine
- Laboratoire Charles Fabry, UMR 8501, Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Avenue Augustin Fresnel, 91127 Palaiseau CEDEX, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Fabry, UMR 8501, Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Avenue Augustin Fresnel, 91127 Palaiseau CEDEX, France
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- INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Trento, 38123 Povo, Italy and Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics and Applications, INFN, 38123 Trento, Italy
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LPTMS, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Fabry, UMR 8501, Institut d'Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Avenue Augustin Fresnel, 91127 Palaiseau CEDEX, France
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Many-body and temperature effects in two-dimensional quantum droplets in Bose-Bose mixtures. Sci Rep 2021; 11:21765. [PMID: 34741072 PMCID: PMC8571397 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01089-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2021] [Accepted: 10/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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We study the equilibrium properties of self-bound droplets in two-dimensional Bose mixtures employing the time-dependent Hartree–Fock–Bogoliubov theory. This theory allows one to understand both the many-body and temperature effects beyond the Lee–Huang–Yang description. We calculate higher-order corrections to the excitations, the sound velocity, and the energy of the droplet. Our results for the ground-state energy are compared with the diffusion Monte Carlo data and good agreement is found. The behavior of the depletion and anomalous density of the droplet is also discussed. At finite temperature, we show that the droplet emerges at temperatures well below the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition temperature. The critical temperature strongly depends on the interspecies interactions. Our study is extended to the finite size droplet by numerically solving the generalized finite-temperature Gross-Pitaevskii equation which is obtained self-consistently from our formalism in the framework of the local density approximation.
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Ma Y, Peng C, Cui X. Borromean Droplet in Three-Component Ultracold Bose Gases. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:043002. [PMID: 34355973 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.043002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2021] [Revised: 04/21/2021] [Accepted: 06/25/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We investigate droplet formation in three-component ultracold bosons. In particular, we identify the formation of a Borromean droplet, where only the ternary bosons can form a self-bound droplet while any binary subsystems cannot, as the first example of Borromean binding due to a collective many-body effect. Its formation is facilitated by an additional attractive force induced by the density fluctuation of a third component, which enlarges the mean-field collapse region in comparison to the binary case and renders the formation of a Borromean droplet after incorporating the repulsive force from quantum fluctuations. Outside the Borromean regime, we demonstrate an interesting phenomenon of droplet phase separation due to the competition between ternary and binary droplets. We further show that the transition between different droplets and gas phase can be conveniently tuned by boson numbers and interaction strengths. The study reveals the rich physics of a quantum droplet in three-component boson mixtures and sheds light on the more intriguing many-body bound state formed in multicomponent systems.
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- Yinfeng Ma
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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Chen CA, Hung CL. Observation of Scale Invariance in Two-Dimensional Matter-Wave Townes Solitons. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:023604. [PMID: 34296901 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.023604] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/05/2021] [Accepted: 06/21/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We report near-deterministic generation of two-dimensional (2D) matter-wave Townes solitons and a precision test on scale invariance in attractive 2D Bose gases. We induce a shape-controlled modulational instability in an elongated 2D matter wave to create an array of isolated solitary waves of various sizes and peak densities. We confirm scale invariance by observing the collapse of solitary-wave density profiles onto a single curve in a dimensionless coordinate rescaled according to their peak densities and observe that the scale-invariant profiles measured at different coupling constants g can further collapse onto the universal profile of Townes solitons. The reported scaling behavior is tested with a nearly 60-fold difference in soliton interaction energies and allows us to discuss the impact of a non-negligible magnetic dipole-dipole interaction (MDDI) on 2D scale invariance. We confirm that the effect of MDDI in our alkali cesium quasi-2D samples effectively conforms to the same scaling law governed by a contact interaction to well within our experiment uncertainty.
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- Cheng-An Chen
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
- Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Bakkali-Hassani B, Maury C, Zou YQ, Le Cerf É, Saint-Jalm R, Castilho PCM, Nascimbene S, Dalibard J, Beugnon J. Realization of a Townes Soliton in a Two-Component Planar Bose Gas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 127:023603. [PMID: 34296923 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.023603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 05/07/2021] [Accepted: 05/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Most experimental observations of solitons are limited to one-dimensional (1D) situations, where they are naturally stable. For instance, in 1D cold Bose gases, they exist for any attractive interaction strength g and particle number N. By contrast, in two dimensions, solitons appear only for discrete values of gN, the so-called Townes soliton being the most celebrated example. Here, we use a two-component Bose gas to prepare deterministically such a soliton: Starting from a uniform bath of atoms in a given internal state, we imprint the soliton wave function using an optical transfer to another state. We explore various interaction strengths, atom numbers, and sizes and confirm the existence of a solitonic behavior for a specific value of gN and arbitrary sizes, a hallmark of scale invariance.
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- B Bakkali-Hassani
- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Schellingstrasse 4, D-80799 München, Germany
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- Instituto de Física de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, CP 369, 13560-970 São Carlos, Brazil
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, 11 Place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France
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Dong L, Kartashov YV. Rotating Multidimensional Quantum Droplets. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:244101. [PMID: 34213917 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.244101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Revised: 04/05/2021] [Accepted: 05/10/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We predict a new type of two- and three-dimensional stable quantum droplets persistently rotating in broad external two-dimensional and weakly anharmonic potential. Their evolution is described by the system of the Gross-Pitaevskii equations with Lee-Huang-Yang quantum corrections. Such droplets resemble whispering-gallery modes localized in the polar direction due to nonlinear interactions and, depending on their chemical potential and rotation frequency, they appear in rich variety of shapes, ranging from nearly flat-top or strongly localized rotating wave packets, to crescentlike objects extending nearly over the entire range of polar angles. Above critical rotation frequency quantum droplets transform into vortex droplets (in two dimensions) or vortex tori (in three dimensions), whose topological charge gradually increase with the increase of the modulus of chemical potential, and therefore they belong to the family of nonlinear modes connecting fundamental and vortex quantum droplets. Rotating quantum droplets are exceptionally robust objects, stable practically in the entire range of their existence.
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- Liangwei Dong
- Department of Physics, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an 710021, China
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- Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow, 108840, Russia
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Skov TG, Skou MG, Jørgensen NB, Arlt JJ. Observation of a Lee-Huang-Yang Fluid. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:230404. [PMID: 34170163 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.230404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 05/18/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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We observe monopole oscillations in a mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates, where the usually dominant mean-field interactions are canceled. In this case, the system is governed by the next-order Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction to the ground state energy, which describes the effect of quantum fluctuations. Experimentally such a LHY fluid is realized by controlling the atom numbers and interaction strengths in a ^{39}K spin mixture confined in a spherical trap potential. We measure the monopole oscillation frequency as a function of the LHY interaction strength as proposed recently by Jrgensen et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 173403 (2018)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.121.173403] and find excellent agreement with simulations of the complete experiment including the excitation procedure and inelastic losses. This confirms that the system and its collective behavior are initially dominated by LHY interactions. Moreover, the monopole oscillation frequency is found to be stable against variations of the involved scattering lengths in a broad region around the ideal values, confirming the stabilizing effect of the LHY interaction. These results pave the way for using the nonlinearity provided by the LHY term in quantum simulation experiments and for investigations beyond the LHY regime.
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- Thomas G Skov
- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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- Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Naidon P, Petrov DS. Mixed Bubbles in Bose-Bose Mixtures. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:115301. [PMID: 33798344 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.115301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2020] [Revised: 11/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Repulsive Bose-Bose mixtures are known to either mix or phase separate into pure components. Here we predict a mixed-bubble regime in which bubbles of the mixed phase coexist with a pure phase of one of the components. This is a beyond-mean-field effect that occurs for unequal masses or unequal intraspecies coupling constants and is due to a competition between the mean-field term, quadratic in densities, and a nonquadratic beyond-mean-field correction. We find parameters of the mixed-bubble regime in all dimensions and discuss implications for current experiments.
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- P Naidon
- Strangeness Nuclear Physics Laboratory, RIKEN Nishina Centre, Wakō 351-0198, Japan
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- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, LPTMS, 91405 Orsay, France
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Otajonov SR, Tsoy EN, Abdullaev FK. Variational approximation for two-dimensional quantum droplets. Phys Rev E 2021; 102:062217. [PMID: 33466111 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.062217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Accepted: 12/08/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The dynamics of a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate in a presence of quantum fluctuations is studied. The properties of localized density distributions, quantum droplets (QDs), are analyzed by means of the variational approach. It is demonstrated that the super-Gaussian function gives a good approximation for profiles of fundamental QDs and droplets with nonzero vorticity. The dynamical equations for parameters of QDs are obtained. Fixed points of these equations determine the parameters of stationary QDs. The period of small oscillations of QDs near the stationary state is estimated. It is obtained that periodic modulations of the strength of quantum fluctuations can actuate different processes, including resonance oscillations of the QD parameters, an emission of waves and a splitting of QDs into smaller droplets.
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- Sherzod R Otajonov
- Physical-Technical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Chingiz Aytmatov str. 2-B, Tashkent 100084, Uzbekistan
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- Physical-Technical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Chingiz Aytmatov str. 2-B, Tashkent 100084, Uzbekistan
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- Physical-Technical Institute of the Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Chingiz Aytmatov str. 2-B, Tashkent 100084, Uzbekistan
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Self-Evaporation Dynamics of Quantum Droplets in a 41K-87Rb Mixture. APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/app11020866] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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We theoretically investigate the self-evaporation dynamics of quantum droplets in a 41K-87Rb mixture, in free-space. The dynamical formation of the droplet and the effects related to the presence of three-body losses are analyzed by means of numerical simulations. We identify a regime of parameters allowing for the observation of the droplet self-evaporation in a feasible experimental setup.
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Bisset RN, Ardila LAP, Santos L. Quantum Droplets of Dipolar Mixtures. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:025301. [PMID: 33512237 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.025301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Recently achieved two-component dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates open exciting possibilities for the study of mixtures of ultradilute quantum liquids. While nondipolar self-bound (without external confinement) mixtures are necessarily miscible with an approximately fixed ratio between the two densities, the density ratio for the dipolar case is free. Therefore, self-bound dipolar mixtures present qualitatively novel and much richer physics, characterized by three possible ground-state phases: miscible, symmetric immiscible, and asymmetric immiscible, which may in principle occur at any population imbalance. Self-bound immiscible droplets are possible due to mutual nonlocal intercomponent attraction, which results in the formation of a droplet molecule. Moreover, our analysis of the impurity regime shows that quantum fluctuations in the majority component crucially modify the miscibility of impurities. Our work opens intriguing perspectives for the exploration of spinor physics in ultradilute liquids, which should resemble to some extent that of ^{4}He-^{3}He droplets and impurity-doped helium droplets.
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- R N Bisset
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
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Smith JC, Baillie D, Blakie PB. Quantum Droplet States of a Binary Magnetic Gas. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:025302. [PMID: 33512210 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.025302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Quantum droplets can emerge in bosonic binary magnetic gases (BMGs) from the interplay of short- and long-ranged interactions, and quantum fluctuations. We develop an extended mean field theory for this system and use it to predict equilibrium and dynamical properties of BMG droplets. We present a phase diagram and characterize miscible and immiscible droplet states. We also show that a single-component self-bound droplet can bind another magnetic component, which is not in the droplet regime, due to the interspecies dipole-dipole interactions. Our results should be realizable in experiments with mixtures of highly magnetic lanthanide atoms.
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- Joseph C Smith
- Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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- Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, New Zealand and Department of Physics, University of Otago, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand
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Morera I, Astrakharchik GE, Polls A, Juliá-Díaz B. Universal Dimerized Quantum Droplets in a One-Dimensional Lattice. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2021; 126:023001. [PMID: 33512190 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.126.023001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/14/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The ground-state properties of two-component bosonic mixtures in a one-dimensional optical lattice are studied both from few- and many-body perspectives. We rely directly on a microscopic Hamiltonian with attractive intercomponent and repulsive intracomponent interactions to demonstrate the formation of a quantum liquid. We reveal that its formation and stability can be interpreted in terms of finite-range interactions between dimers. We derive an effective model of composite bosons (dimers) which correctly captures both the few- and many-body properties and validate it against exact results obtained by the density matrix renormalization group method for the full Hamiltonian. The threshold for the formation of the liquid coincides with the appearance of a bound state in the dimer-dimer problem and possesses a universality in terms of the two-body parameters of the dimer-dimer interaction, namely, scattering length and effective range. For sufficiently strong effective dimer-dimer repulsion we observe fermionization of the dimers which form an effective Tonks-Girardeau state and identify conditions for the formation of a solitonic solution. Our predictions are relevant to experiments with dipolar atoms and two-component mixtures.
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- Ivan Morera
- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Campus Nord B4-B5, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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- Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
- Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, Martí i Franquès 1, Barcelona 08028, Spain
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Böttcher F, Schmidt JN, Hertkorn J, Ng KSH, Graham SD, Guo M, Langen T, Pfau T. New states of matter with fine-tuned interactions: quantum droplets and dipolar supersolids. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2021; 84:012403. [PMID: 33176284 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/abc9ab] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Quantum fluctuations can stabilize Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) against the mean-field collapse. Stabilization of the condensate has been observed in quantum degenerate Bose-Bose mixtures and dipolar BECs. The fine-tuning of the interatomic interactions can lead to the emergence of two new states of matter: liquid-like self-bound quantum droplets and supersolid crystals formed from these droplets. We review the properties of these exotic states of matter and summarize the experimental progress made using dipolar quantum gases and Bose-Bose mixtures. We conclude with an outline of important open questions that could be addressed in the future.
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- Fabian Böttcher
- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Universität Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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The Breakup of a Helium Cluster After Removing Attractive Interaction Among a Significant Number of Atoms in the Cluster. Sci Rep 2020; 10:5767. [PMID: 32238856 PMCID: PMC7113238 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-62732-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/13/2020] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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The breakup of a quantum liquid droplet is examined through a 4He cluster by removing the attractive tail in the interaction between some of the atoms in the system with the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo simulation. The ground-state energy, kinetic energy, cluster size, and density profile of the cluster are evaluated against the percentage of the atoms without the attractive tail. The condition for the cluster to lose its ability to form a quantum liquid droplet at zero temperature is found and analyzed. The cluster is no longer able to form a quantum liquid droplet when about two-thirds of pairs of attractive interaction are removed. The findings are helpful to the current studies on the formation of quantum liquid droplets from cold atoms.
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Hu H, Liu XJ. Consistent Theory of Self-Bound Quantum Droplets with Bosonic Pairing. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2020; 125:195302. [PMID: 33216582 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.125.195302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2020] [Accepted: 10/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We revisit the Bogoliubov theory of quantum droplets proposed by Petrov [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 155302 (2015)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.115.155302] for an ultracold Bose-Bose mixture, where the mean-field collapse is stabilized by the Lee-Huang-Yang quantum fluctuations. We show that a loophole in Petrov's theory, i.e., the ignorance of the softening complex Bogoliubov spectrum, can be naturally removed by the introduction of bosonic pairing. The pairing leads to weaker mean-field attractions, and also a stronger Lee-Huang-Yang term in the case of unequal intraspecies interactions. As a result, the equilibrium density for the formation of self-bound droplets significantly decreases in the deep droplet regime, in agreement with a recent observation from diffusion Monte Carlo simulations. Our construction of a consistent Bogoliubov theory paves the way to understand the puzzling low critical number of small quantum droplets observed in the experiment [C. Cabrera et al., Science 359, 301 (2018)SCIEAS0036-807510.1126/science.aao5686].
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- Hui Hu
- Centre for Quantum Technology Theory, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia
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- Centre for Quantum Technology Theory, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria 3122, Australia
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Dos Santos MCP, Malomed BA, Cardoso WB. Double-layer Bose-Einstein condensates: A quantum phase transition in the transverse direction, and reduction to two dimensions. Phys Rev E 2020; 102:042209. [PMID: 33212641 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.042209] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2020] [Accepted: 09/22/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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We revisit the problem of the reduction of the three-dimensional (3D) dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates, under the action of strong confinement in one direction (z), to a 2D mean-field equation. We address this problem for the confining potential with a singular term, viz., V_{z}(z)=2z^{2}+ζ^{2}/z^{2}, with constant ζ. A quantum phase transition is induced by the latter term, between the ground state (GS) of the harmonic oscillator and the 3D condensate split in two parallel noninteracting layers, which is a manifestation of the "superselection" effect. A realization of the respective physical setting is proposed, making use of resonant coupling to an optical field, with the resonance detuning modulated along z. The reduction of the full 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) to the 2D nonpolynomial Schrödinger equation (NPSE) is based on the factorized ansatz, with the z -dependent multiplier represented by an exact GS solution of the 1D Schrödinger equation with potential V_{z}(z). For both repulsive and attractive signs of the nonlinearity, the 2D NPSE produces GS and vortex states, that are virtually indistinguishable from the respective numerical solutions provided by full 3D GPE. In the case of the self-attraction, the threshold for the onset of the collapse, predicted by the 2D NPSE, is also virtually identical to its counterpart obtained from the 3D equation. In the same case, stability and instability of vortices with topological charge S=1, 2, and 3 are considered in detail. Thus, the procedure of the spatial-dimension reduction, 3D → 2D, produces very accurate results, and it may be used in other settings.
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- Mateus C P Dos Santos
- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás 74.690-970, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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- Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, and Center for Light-Matter Interaction, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
- Instituto de Alta Investigación, Universidad de Tarapacá, Casilla 7D, Arica, Chile
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- Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás 74.690-970, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
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