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We investigate a molecular quantum rotor in a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate. The focus is on studying the angulon quasiparticle concept in the crossover from few- to many-body physics. To this end, we formulate the problem in…

Microscopic imaging of local magnetic fields provides a window into the organizing principles of complex and technologically relevant condensed matter materials. However, a wide variety of intriguing strongly correlated and topologically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Fan Yang , Alicia J. Kollár , Stephen F. Taylor , Richard W. Turner , Benjamin L. Lev

A central goal in condensed matter and modern atomic physics is the exploration of many-body quantum phases and the universal characteristics of quantum phase transitions in so far as they differ from those established for thermal phase…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. E. Sadler , J. M. Higbie , S. R. Leslie , M. Vengalattore , D. M. Stamper-Kurn

Coherence properties are central to quantum systems and are at the heart of phenomena such as superconductivity. Here we study coherence properties of an ultracold Bose gas in a two-dimensional optical lattice across the thermal phase…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-15 Justus C. Brüggenjürgen , Mathis S. Fischer , Christof Weitenberg

We investigate some aspects of the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of quantum gases in the presence of inhomogeneous conditions. We consider three-dimensional (3D) quantum gases trapped by an external potential when the temperature is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-10 Francesco Delfino , Ettore Vicari

We present a detailed study to show the possibility of approaching the quantum ground-state of a hybrid optomechanical quantum device formed by a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined inside a high-finesse optical cavity with an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 Sonam Mahajan , Neha Aggarwal , Aranya B Bhattacherjee , ManMohan

We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gravitational wave detector, and study its sensitivity by optimizing the properties of the condensate and the measurement duration. We show that detecting kilohertz gravitational waves is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Niayesh Afshordi , Robert B. Mann

In this paper we investigate the stability of a recently introduced Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which involves logarithmic interaction between atoms. The Gaussian variational approach is employed to derive equations of motion for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-14 B. Bouharia

Quantum simulation with ultracold atoms has become a powerful technique to gain insight into interacting many-body systems. In particular, the possibility to study nonequilibrium dynamics offers a unique pathway to understand correlations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-07-29 Sebastian Will , Deepak Iyer , Marcos Rigol

For quantum fluids, the role of quantum fluctuations may be significant in several regimes such as when the dimensionality is low, the density is high, the interactions are strong, or for low particle numbers. In this paper we propose a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-02 R. N. Bisset , P. G. Kevrekidis , C. Ticknor

Inspired by recent proposals for detecting gravitational waves by using Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), we investigate the interplay between these two phenomena. A gravitational wave induces a phase shift in the fidelity amplitude of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-12-12 A. Perodi , L. Salasnich

We report on the experimental observation of classical Brownian motion in momentum space by a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of Rubidium atoms prepared in a hexagonal optical lattice. Upon suddenly increasing the effective atomic mass, the…

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in free fall constitute a promising source for space-borne matter-wave interferometry. Indeed, BECs enjoy a slowly expanding wave function, display a large spatial coherence and can be engineered and probed…

We show that a Bose-Einstein condensate of heteronuclear molecules in the regime of small and static electric fields is described by a quantum rotor model for the macroscopic electric dipole moment of the molecular gas cloud. We solve this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-12-04 J. Armaitis , R. A. Duine , H. T. C. Stoof

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…

We consider an optomechanical cavity with a movable end-mirror as a quantum mechanical oscillator (MO) containing an interacting cigar-shaped Bose-Eisenstein condensate (BEC). It is assumed that both the MO and the BEC interact with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Ali Motazedifard , A. Dalafi , M. H. Naderi , R. Roknizadeh

We investigate the coherence properties of an atomic beam evaporatively cooled in a magnetic guide, assuming thermal equilibrium in the quantum degenerate regime. The gas experiences two-dimensional, transverse Bose-Einstein condensation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yvan Castin , Ralph Dum , Emmanuel Mandonnet , Anna Minguzzi , Iacopo Carusotto

We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of $^7Li$ in a situation where the density undergoes a symmetry breaking in real space. This occurs for a suitable number of condensed atoms in a double well potential, obtained by adding a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Montina , F. T. Arecchi

Manipulation of the quantum state by the Majorana transition in spinor BEC system has been realized by altering the rotation frequency of the magnetic field's direction. This kind of manipulation method has no limitation on the transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Lin Xia , Xu Xu , Fan Yang , Wei Xiong , Juntao Li , Qianli Ma , Xiaoji Zhou , Hong Guo , Xuzong Chen

Josephson junctions are essential ingredients in the superconducting circuits used in many existing quantum technologies. Additionally, ultracold atomic quantum gases have also become essential platforms to study superfluidity. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-04-26 Mário H. Figlioli Donato , Sérgio R. Muniz