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The occurrence of vortices in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) enables a description of their superfluid behaviour. In this article we present a pedagogical introduction to the vortex physics in trapped atomic BECs. The mechanism of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sankalpa Ghosh

We have studied the effects of Lorentz-violation in the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of an ideal boson gas, by assessing both the nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic limits. Our model describes a massive complex scalar field coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-17 Rodolfo Casana , Kleber A. T. da Silva

A uniform force like the weight has been shown to forbid Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), due to the discreteness of the Airy spectrum, resulting from the weight. We show that BEC is forbidden even if the Airy spectrum is treated as…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-02 Loris Ferrari , Fabrizio Pavan

We consider a quantum Otto cycle with an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. We present a procedure to evolve this system in time in three spatial dimensions, in which closed (adiabatic) strokes are described by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Julian Amette Estrada , Franco Mayo , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Pablo D. Mininni

Weakly interacting, dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have proved to be an attractive context for the study of nonlinear dynamics and quantum effects at the macroscopic scale. Recently, atomic BECs have been used to investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 A. J. Allen , N. G. Parker , N. P. Proukakis , C. F. Barenghi

Bubble-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) constitute a unique class of quantum fluids with a hollow, thin-shell geometry that supports a wide variety of phenomena that are distinct from those of compact condensates. Numerical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-06 Abel Beregi , Jean-Baptiste Gerent , Nathan Lundblad

We suggest a method to create turbulence in a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By replacing in the upper half part of our box the wave function, Psi, with its complex conjugate, Psi^{*}, new negative vortices are introduced…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Eniko J. M. Madarassy

The partition function and specific heat of a system consisting of a finite number of bosons confined in an external potential are calculated in canonical ensemble. Using the grand partition function as the generating function of the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Wenji Deng , P. M. Hui

In the first-quantized description of bosonic systems permutation cycles formed by the particles play a fundamental role. In the ideal Bose gas Bose-Enstein condensation (BEC) is signaled by the appearance of infinite cycles. When the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-19 Andras Suto

Recently, neutral atoms have emerged as a promising platform for quantum computing, offering scalability. In this study, we showcase the realization of atomic qubits in atom-molecular Bose-Einstein condensate, belonging to three distinct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Leena Barshilia , Rajiuddin Sk , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Avinash Khare

We have produced a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on an atom chip using only superconducting wires in a cryogenic environment. We observe the onset of condensation for 10^4 atoms at a temperature of 100 nK. This result opens the way for…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Roux , A. Emmert , A. Lupascu , T. Nirrengarten , G. Nogues , M. Brune , J. -M. Raimond , S. Haroche

We take into account two further physical models which play an utmost importance in the framework of Analogue Gravity. We first consider Bose--Einstein condensates (BEC) and then surface gravity waves in water. Our approach is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 F. Belgiorno , S. L. Cacciatori , A. Farahat , A. Viganò

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum fluid that gives rise to interesting shock wave nonlinear dynamics. Experiments depict a BEC that exhibits behavior similar to that of a shock wave in a compressible gas, eg. traveling fronts…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 M. A. Hoefer , M. J. Ablowitz , I. Coddington , E. A. Cornell , P. Engels , V. Schweikhard

The recent developments of microgravity experiments with ultracold atoms have produced a relevant boost in the study of shell-shaped ellipsoidal Bose-Einstein condensates. For realistic bubble-trap parameters, here we calculate the critical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 A. Tononi , F. Cinti , L. Salasnich

The pole of the two-particle T-matrix including the influence of the surrounding medium is analyzed for an interacting Bose gas. The phase diagram of the Bose -Einstein condensation (BEC) depending on the temperature, density, scattering…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Morawetz M. Männel , M. Schreiber , P. Lipavský

Dynamics of the repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double-well trap is explored within the 3D time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The model avoids numerous common approximations (two-mode treatment, time-space…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-02-04 V. O. Nesterenko , A. N. Novikov , E. Suraud

We analyze the rotation curves that correspond to a Bose--Einstein Condensate (BEC) type halo surrounding a Schwarzschild--type black hole to confront predictions of the model upon observations of galaxy rotation curves. We model the halo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Elías Castellanos , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Jorge Mastache

We propose an experiment for the measurement of gravitational effect on cold atoms by applying a one-dimensional vertically sinusoidal oscillation to the magneto-optical trap; and observe the signature of low quantum energy shift of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-05 Marcilio Dos Santos , Teodora Oniga , Andrew Mcleman , Martin Caldwell , Charles Wang

We propose and numerically benchmark light-pulse atom interferometry with ultra-cold quantum gases as a platform to test the modulo-square hypothesis of Born's rule. Our interferometric protocol is based on a combination of double Bragg and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Simon Kanthak , Julia Pahl , Daniel Reiche , Markus Krutzik

We study a relativistic scalar field model for self-bound Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) by analyzing a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with cubic and logarithmic interactions. This framework captures essential features of quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Kevin Hernández , Elías Castellanos