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Capillary instability in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate

Quantum Gases 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

Capillary instability and the resulting dynamics in an immiscible two-component Bose-Einstein condensate are investigated using the mean-field and Bogoliubov analyses. A long, cylindrical condensate surrounded by the other component is dynamically unstable against breakup into droplets due to the interfacial tension arising from the quantum pressure and interactions. A heteronuclear system confined in a cigar-shaped trap is proposed for realizing this phenomenon experimentally.

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@article{arxiv.1103.0383,
  title  = {Capillary instability in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {Kazuki Sasaki and Naoya Suzuki and Hiroki Saito},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1103.0383},
  year   = {2015}
}

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7 pages, 6 figures

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