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We study modulational instability of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice, which is modelled as a coupled discrete nonlinear Schr \"{o}dinger equation. The excitation spectrum and the modulational instability…

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Motivated by recent experimental realization of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of dipolar molecules, we develop superfluid transport theory for a dissipative BEC to show that a weak uniform two-body loss can induce phase rigidity, leading…

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The recent observations of a stable molecular condensate emerging from a condensate of bosonic atoms and related "super-chemical" dynamics have raised an intriguing set of questions. Here we provide a microscopic understanding of this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-16 Zhiqiang Wang , Ke Wang , Zhendong Zhang , Shu Nagata , Cheng Chin , K. Levin

A self consistent theory of a cigar shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) periodically modulated by a laser beam is presented. We show, both theoretically and numerically, that modulational instability/stability is the mechanism by which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

Liquid helium 4 had been the only bosonic superfluid available in experiments for a long time. This situation was changed in 1995, when a new superfluid was born with the realization of the Bose-Einstein condensation in ultracold atomic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-05 Qizhong Zhu , Biao Wu

We demonstrate the existence of phase fluctuations in elongated Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) and study the dependence of those fluctuations on the system parameters. A strong dependence on temperature, atom number, and trapping geometry…

We analyze gap solitons in trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in optical lattice potentials under Feshbach resonance management. Starting with an averaged Gross-Pitaevsky (GP) equation with a periodic potential, we employ an envelope…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-11 Mason A. Porter , Marina Chugunova , Dmitry E. Pelinovsky

This paper is concerned with the long wavelength instabilities (infrared catastrophes) occurring in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We examine the modulational instability in ``cigar-shaped'' (1D) attractive BECs and the transverse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , G. Theocharis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. Trombettoni

In this paper, we investigate the impact of higher-order interactions on the modulational instability (MI) of Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) immersed in an optical lattice potential. We derive the new variational equations for the time…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-09-23 S. Sabari , OT. Lekeufack , SB. Yamgoue , R. Tamilthiruvalluvar , R. Radha

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with periodically modulated interactions (PMI) has emerged as a novel kind of periodic superfluid, which has been recently experimentally created using optical Feshbach resonance. In this paper, we are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-12-16 Lei Chen , Wu Li , Zhu Chen , Zhidong Zhang , Zhaoxin Liang

We consider the Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in optical lattice, which is formed from two kinds of deep potentials. The tight-binding approximation was used. Steady state distribution of the probability amplitudes and the site…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2007-12-12 Ekaterina A. Sorokina , Andrei I. Maimistov

Temporal periodic modulation of the interatomic s-wave scattering length in Bose-Einstein condensates is shown to excite subharmonic patterns of atom density through a parametric resonance. The dominating wavelength of the spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kestutis Staliunas , Stefano Longhi , German J. de Valcarcel

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of Feshbach molecules in a homogeneous Bose gas is studied at finite temperatures in a single-channel mean-field approach where the Hartree-Fock energy and pairing gap are determined self-consistently. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-21 Zeng-Qiang Yu , Lan Yin

We investigate analytically, the stability of Bloch waves at the boundary of the first Brillouin zone in two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates confined in an optical lattice. Contrary to the single component case, we find here two critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Vikash Ranjan , Aranya B Bhattacherjee , Man Mohan

We present the theoretical and mathematical foundations of stability analysis for a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at Dirac points of a honeycomb optical lattice. The combination of s-wave scattering for bosons and lattice interaction…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-08 L. H. Haddad , Lincoln D. Carr

We observe the formation of momentum distributions indicative of spatial period-doubling of superfluid Bose-Einstein condensates in periodically translated optical lattices. The effect is attributed to dynamic instability of the condensate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-05-29 Nathan Gemelke , Edina Sarajlic , Yannick Bidel , Seokchan Hong , Steven Chu

Supersolidity in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which is the coexistence of crystalline density modulation and global phase coherence, emerges from the interplay of contact interactions, long-range dipole-dipole forces, and…

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We examine the collective scattering of a superfluid droplet impinging on a mesoscopic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a target. The BEC consists of an atomic gas with two internal electronic states, each of which is trapped by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Grupp , G. Nandi , R. Walser , W. P. Schleich

We consider the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation in the presence of periodic and quasiperiodic superlattices to study cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in such potentials. We examine spatially extended wavefunctions in the form of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Mason A. Porter , P. G. Kevrekidis

We consider the stability of an ultracold trapped Bose-Einstein condensate near a Feshbach resonance. Using a modified Gross-Pitaevskii equation that includes higher-order terms and a multi-channel model of Feshbach resonances, we find…

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