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Absence of Landau damping in driven three-component Bose-Einstein condensate in optical lattices

Quantum Gases 2018-08-28 v2

Abstract

We explore the quantum many-body physics of a three-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in an optical lattices driven by laser fields in VV and Λ\Lambda configurations. We obtain exact analytical expressions for the energy spectrum and amplitudes of elementary excitations, and discover symmetries among them. We demonstrate that the applied laser fields induce a gap in the otherwise gapless Bogoliubov spectrum. We find that Landau damping of the collective modes above the energy of the gap is carried by laser-induced roton modes and is considerably suppressed compared to the phonon-mediated damping endemic to undriven scalar BECs.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10199,
  title  = {Absence of Landau damping in driven three-component Bose-Einstein condensate in optical lattices},
  author = {Gavriil Shchedrin and Daniel Jaschke and Lincoln D. Carr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10199},
  year   = {2018}
}