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We present families of beating dark-dark solitons in spin-orbit (SO) coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. These families consist of solitons residing simultaneously in the two bands of the energy spectrum. The soliton components are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-19 V. Achilleos , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

Phase transitions can modify quantum behaviour on mesoscopic scales and give access to new and unusual quantum dynamics. Here we investigate the superfluid properties of a rotating two-component Bose--Einstein condensate as a function of…

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We present the experimental discovery of compound structures comprising solitons and vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We examine both their creation via soliton-vortex collisions and their subsequent development, which is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Naomi S. Ginsberg , Joachim Brand , Lene Vestergaard Hau

Recent studies suggest that dark matter could take the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a possibility motivated by anomalies in galactic rotation curves and the missing mass problem in galaxy clusters. We investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Tiberiu Harko

Exciton-polaritons are quasi-particles arising from the strong coupling regime between excitons and photons. In planar microcavitites, phenomena such as superfluidity or Bose-Einstein condensation can be observed. Those systems have…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-04 Anne Maître

Supersolid is an exotic state of matter, showing crystalline order with a superfluid background, observed recently in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a trap. Here, we present exact solutions of the desired Bloch form in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-07-07 Mithilesh K. Parit , Gargi Tyagi , Dheerendra Singh , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

Phase transitions are ubiquitous in nature, ranging from protein folding and denaturisation, to the superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition, to the decoupling of forces in the early universe. Remarkably, phase transitions can be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-14 C. N. Weiler , T. W. Neely , D. R. Scherer , A. S. Bradley , M. J. Davis , B. P. Anderson

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

The motion of a dark soliton is investigated in a one-dimensional dilute Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic trap and an optical lattice. The harmonic trap induces a dynamical instability of the soliton, culminating in sound…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 N. G. Parker , N. P. Proukakis , C. F. Barenghi , C. S. Adams

One of the most striking quantum effects in a low temperature interacting Bose gas is superfluidity. First observed in liquid 4He, this phenomenon has been intensively studied in a variety of systems for its amazing features such as the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-06-16 K. G. Lagoudakis , M. Wouters , M. Richard , A. Baas , I. Carusotto , R. Andre , Le Si Dang , B. Deveaud-Pledran

The stability of nonlinear waves on curved surfaces is a problem of widespread interest across physics. Here, we establish the stability criteria for dark solitons on a spherical Bose-Einstein condensate. We demonstrate a sharp instability…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Raphael Wictky Sallatti , Lauro Tomio , Dmitry Pelinovsky , Arnaldo Gammal

The possibility of generating stable anisotropic solitons in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) leads to a different scenario not possible in a nondipolar BEC with contact interaction. We study the statics and dynamics of anisotropic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-04 Luis E. Young-S. , S. K. Adhikari

Recent experimental advancements enabled the creation of various systems exhibiting superfluid behavior, with one notable achievement being the development of dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (dBECs). When confined along one or more…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-17 Alberto Villois , Miguel Onorato , Davide Proment

We discuss how to construct stable multidimensional extensions of one-dimensional dark solitons, the so-called soliton stripes, in two-species Bose-Einstein condensates in the immiscible regime. We show how using a second component to fill…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-06-09 Valeriy A. Brazhnyi , Víctor M. Pérez-García

We discuss temporal dark solitons in confined nonuniform Bose condensates. As a kind of localized high excitation, these solitons can be viewed as macroscopic quasiparticles, having relative motion to the background condensate. We get an…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 Tao Hong , Yu Zhu Wang , Yun Sheng Huo

We propose experiments to observe Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) and superfluidity of quasi-two-dimensional (2D) spatially indirect magnetoexcitons in bilayer graphene. The magnetic field $B$ is assumed strong. The energy spectrum of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Oleg L. Berman , Yurii E. Lozovik , Godfrey Gumbs

We study the effect of a one dimensional optical lattice in a cavity field with quantum properties on the superfluid dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate(BEC). In the cavity the influence of atomic backaction and the external driving pump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aranya B. Bhattacherjee

We consider Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to the action of spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) periodically modulated in the radial direction. In contrast to the commonly known principle that periodic potentials do not create bound states,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-15 Chunyan Li , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

Quantum turbulence deals with the phenomenon of turbulence in quantum fluids, such as superfluid helium and trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). Although much progress has been made in understanding quantum turbulence, several…

We have studied the effects of a disordered optical potential on the transport and phase coherence of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of 7Li atoms. At moderate disorder strengths (V_D), we observe inhibited transport and damping of dipole…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Yong P. Chen , J. Hitchcock , D. Dries , M. Junker , C. Welford , R. G. Hulet