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We present a theoretical analysis of the coherent acceleration of atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. A first scheme relies on the 'conveyor belt' provided by a frequency-chirped optical lattice. For potentials shallow enough that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Potting , M. Cramer , C. H. Schwalb , H. Pu , P. Meystre

Spontaneous pattern formation out of homogeneous media is one of the well-understood examples of hydrodynamic instabilities in classical systems, which naturally leads to the question of its manifestation in quantum fluids. Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-12 Kiryang Kwon , Jae-yoon Choi

We explore the effect of mutual gravitational interaction between ultra-cold gas atoms on the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). Small amplitude oscillation of BEC is studied by applying variational technique to reduce the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-27 Patrick Das Gupta

The interplay between matter particles and gauge fields in physical spaces with nontrivial geometries can lead to novel topological quantum matter. However, detailed microscopic mechanisms are often obscure, and unconventional spaces are…

A periodically kicked ring of a Bose-Einstein condensate is considered as a nonlinear generalization of the quantum kicked rotor, where the nonlinearity stems from the mean field interactions between the condensed atoms. For weak…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Jie Liu , Chuanwei Zhang , Mark G. Raizen , Qian Niu

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with symmetric harmonic trap is given in (1). Periodic solutions of (1) play an important role in the understanding of the long term behavior of its solutions. In this note…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-03-08 Andres Contreras , Carlos García-Azpeitia

If dark matter is composed of massive bosons, a Bose-Einstein Condensation process must have occurred during the cosmological evolution. Therefore galactic dark matter may be in a form of a condensate, characterized by a strong…

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We develop the multiscale technique to describe excitations of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) whose characteristic scales are comparable with the healing length, thus going beyond the conventional hydrodynamical approximation. As an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Vladimir V. Konotop , Victor M. Perez-Garcia

We investigate the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a classically chaotic system, which describes an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate confined in an optical lattice and driven by a spatiotemporal periodic laser field. It is demonstrated that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wenhua Hai , Chaohong Lee , Qianquan Zhu

The problem of understanding how a coherent, macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) emerges from the cooling of a thermal Bose gas has attracted significant theoretical and experimental interest over several decades. The pioneering…

Our aim in the present work is to identify all the possible standing wave configurations involving few vortices of different charges in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). In this effort, we deploy the use of a computational algebra…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-10-30 Emilie Dufresne , Heather A Harrington , Panayotis G Kevrekidis , Paolo Tripoli

We develop a model of Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter halos with a solitonic core and an isothermal atmosphere based on a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson equation [P.H. Chavanis, Eur. Phys. J. Plus 132, 248 (2017)]. This equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-06 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We investigate a small vortex-lattice system of four co-rotating vortices in an atomic Bose--Einstein condensate and find that the vortex dynamics display chaotic behaviour after a system quench introduced by reversing the direction of…

We report on experimental observation of BEC-like behaviour of quantized electron spin waves (magnons) in a dense gas of spin polarized atomic hydrogen. The magnons are trapped and controlled with inhomogeneous magnetic fields, and…

As an atomic Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) is coupled to a source of uncondensed atoms at the same temperature and to a sink (extraction towards an atom laser) the idealized description in terms of a Gross-Pitaevsky equation (GP) no longer…

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The dynamical vortex production, with a trap-confining time-dependent stirred potential, is studied by using mass-imbalanced cold-atom coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). The vortex formation is explored by considering that both…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-29 Anacé N. da Silva , R. Kishor Kumar , Ashton S. Bradley , Lauro Tomio

It is demonstrated that a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with all-repulsive inter-atomic interactions loaded into a radially symmetric harmonic trap supports robust non-coaxial vortices with approximately orthogonal vortex…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-18 R. Driben , V. V. Konotop , T. Meier

We investigate the stability of vortices in two-dimensional Bose--Einstein condensates. In analogy with rotating spacetimes and with a careful account of boundary conditions, we show that the dynamical instability of multiply quantized…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-30 Luca Giacomelli , Iacopo Carusotto