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Dynamics of equilibration and collisions in ultradilute quantum droplets

Quantum Gases 2021-04-20 v1 Nuclear Theory Computational Physics Fluid Dynamics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Employing time-dependent density-functional theory, we have studied dynamical equilibration and binary head-on collisions of quantum droplets made of a 39^{39}K-39^{39}K Bose mixture. The phase space of collision outcomes is extensively explored by performing fully three-dimensional calculations with effective single-component QMC based and two-components LHY-corrected mean-field functionals. We exhaustively explored the important effect -- not considered in previous studies -- of the initial population ratio deviating from the optimal mean-field value N2/N1=a11/a22N_2/N_1 = \sqrt{a_{11} / a_{22}}. Both stationary and dynamical calculations with an initial non-optimal concentration ratio display good agreement with experiments. Calculations including three-body losses acting only on the F,mF=1,0\left|F, m_{F}\right\rangle=|1,0\rangle state show dramatic differences with those obtained with the three-body term acting on the total density.

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@article{arxiv.2104.09102,
  title  = {Dynamics of equilibration and collisions in ultradilute quantum droplets},
  author = {Viktor Cikojević and Leandra Vranješ Markić and Martí Pi and Manuel Barranco and Francesco Ancilotto and Jordi Boronat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.09102},
  year   = {2021}
}