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The creation and propagation of sound waves in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) are investigated and a new method of wave generation in binary BEC mixtures is proposed. The method is based on a fast change of the inter-species…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-11-14 B. B. Baizakov , A. M. Kamchatnov , M. Salerno

Nonlinear wave patterns generated by the flow of polariton condensate past an obstacle are studied for quasi-one-dimensional microcavity geometry. It is shown that pumping and nonlinear damping play a crucial role in this process leading to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-01-06 Anatoly M. Kamchatnov , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We study the coherent flow of interacting Bose-condensed atoms in mesoscopic waveguide geometries. Analytical and numerical methods, based on the mean-field description of the condensate, are developed to study both stationary as well as…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Tobias Paul , Michael Hartung , Klaus Richter , Peter Schlagheck

A one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate may experience nonlinear periodic modulations known as "cnoidal waves". We argue that such structures represent promising candidates for the study of supersolidity-related phenomena in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-17 Giovanni I. Martone , Alessio Recati , Nicolas Pavloff

We show how the momentum distribution of gaseous Bose--Einstein condensates can be shaped by applying a sequence of standing-wave laser pulses. We present a theory, whose validity for was demonstrated in an earlier experiment [L.\ Deng, et…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-12-17 Mark Edwards , Brandon Benton , Jeffrey Heward , Charles W. Clark

When a sizable, hard-sphere-like impurity is placed in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, it will create a hole in the condensate wave function. Since it costs more energy to drill a hole at the wave function's maximum (near the trap…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Siu A. Chin , Harald A. Forbert

Mobile impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate form quasiparticles called polarons. Here, we show that two such polarons can bind to form a bound bipolaron state. Its emergence is caused by an induced nonlocal interaction mediated by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-12 A. Camacho-Guardian , L. A. Peña Ardila , T. Pohl , G. M. Bruun

We present a theoretical analysis of three-dimensional (3D) matter-wave solitons and their stability properties in coupled atomic and molecular Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). The soliton solutions to the mean-field equations are obtained…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 T. G. Vaughan , K. V. Kheruntsyan , P. D. Drummond

We investigate the behavior of impurity fields immersed in a larger condensate field in 1, 2, and 3 dimensions. We discuss the localization of a single impurity field within a condensate and note the effects of surface energy. We derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-01-15 David C. Roberts , Sergio Rica

We present a numerical study of the dynamical effects following a sudden change of the transverse trapping frequency in an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate, which induces periodic oscillations of the radial density. At early times, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-09-12 Scott Robertson , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

We investigate parametric excitation and pattern formation in a harmonically trapped two-component Bose-Einstein condensate. We assume the condensate to be in the miscible phase, but near the miscible-immiscible phase transition, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Meiling Wang , Juan Wang , Yan Li , Franco Dalfovo , Chunlei Qu

We show that the motion of an accelerated atomic impurity immersed in a spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in the supersolid stripe phase undergoes oscillations, similar to the well-known phenomenon of Bloch oscillations in solids.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-08 Muhammad S. Hasan , J. Polo , J. C. Pelayo , Th. Busch

Stationary waves in a superfluid magnetoexciton gas in nu = 1 quantum Hall bilayers are considered. The waves are induced by counter-propagating electrical currents that flow in a system with a point obstacle. It is shown that stationary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. A. Pikalov , D. V. Fil

We analyze the peculiar infrared instability that characterizes stationary inhomogeneous flows when their velocity crosses the sound speed by decreasing values. For definiteness, we work in the context of one dimensional atomic Bose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-02-09 Xavier Busch , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

Stationary waves in the condensate of electron-hole pairs in the $n-p$ bilayer system are studied. The system demonstrates the transition from a uniform (superfluid) to a nonuniform (supersolid) state. The precursor of this transition is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 D. V. Fil , S. I. Shevchenko

We study the motion of an impurity under the action of a constant force through a one-dimensional system of weakly-interacting bosons. The interplay of the impurity-boson interaction, the boson-boson interaction, and the driving force gives…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-09 Saptarshi Majumdar , Aleksandra Petković

We theoretically investigate superradiance effects in quantum field theories in curved space-times by proposing an analogue model based on Bose--Einstein condensates subject to a synthetic vector potential. The breaking of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-08 Luca Giacomelli , Iacopo Carusotto

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate, which is confined in a very tight toroidal/annular trap, in the presence of a potential, which breaks the axial symmetry of the Hamiltonian. We investigate the stationary states of the condensate,…

Motivated by recent progress in trapping Bose-Einstein condensed atoms in toroidal potentials, we examine solitary-wave solutions of the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation subject to periodic boundary conditions. When the circumference of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 J. Smyrnakis , M. Magiropoulos , G. M. Kavoulakis , A. D. Jackson

We consider flux equilibrium in dissipative nonlinear wave systems subject to external energy pumping. In such systems, the elementary excitations, or quasiparticles, can create a Bose-Einstein condensate. We develop a theory on the…