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Thermal behavior of Bose-Einstein condensates of polar molecules

Quantum Gases 2025-10-17 v3

Abstract

We use the finite-temperature extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation (TeGPE) to study a condensate of dipolar NaCs molecules under the conditions of the very recent, breakthrough experiment [Bigagli et.al., Nature 631, 289 (2024)]. We report the condensate fraction of the system, and its density profile after a time-of flight expansion for the coldest experimental case, finding excellent agreement with the experimental measurements. We also report the peak density of the ground state and establish a comparison with the experimental estimates. Our results, derived from the TeGPE formalism, successfully describe the Bose-Einstein condensation of polar molecules at finite temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2502.08339,
  title  = {Thermal behavior of Bose-Einstein condensates of polar molecules},
  author = {Juan Sánchez-Baena and Gerard Pascual and Raúl Bombín and Ferran Mazzanti and Jordi Boronat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08339},
  year   = {2025}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures