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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

Phase contrast imaging is used to observe Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) at finite temperature in situ. The imaging technique is used to accurately derive the absolute phase shift of a probe laser beam due to both the condensate and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Meppelink , R. A. Rozendaal , S. B. Koller , J. M. Vogels , P. van der Straten

We report on measurements of splitting Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) by using a time-dependent optical lattice potential. First, we demonstrate the division of a BEC into a set of equally populated components by means of time dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-02 Sung Jong Park , Henrik Kjaer Andersen , Sune Mai , Jan Arlt , Jacob F. Sherson

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a quantum phase of matter achieved at low temperatures. Photons, one of the most prominent species of bosons, do not typically condense due to the lack of a particle number-conservation. We recently…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Chiao-Hsuan Wang , M. J. Gullans , J. V. Porto , William D. Phillips , Jacob M. Taylor

We predict the loss of superfluidity in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a combined optical and axially-symmetric harmonic potentials during a resonant collective excitation initiated by a periodic modulation of the atomic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Sadhan K. Adhikari

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

Within the framework of the mean-field description, we investigate atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), with attraction between atoms, under the action of strong transverse confinement and periodic (optical-lattice, OL) axial potential.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Salasnich , A. Cetoli , B. A. Malomed , F. Toigo

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

Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit fascinating emergent behavior. Atomic quantum gases, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials all show distinct properties due to their composition and…

Vortices in a one-component dilute atomic ultracold Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) usually arise as a response to externally driven rotation. Apart from a few special situations, these vortices are singly quantized with unit circulation.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-24 Alexander L. Fetter

We study the large deviations behavior of systems that admit a certain form of a product distribution, which is frequently encountered both in Physics and in various information system models. First, to fix ideas, we demonstrate a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Neri Merhav , Yariv Kafri

Using a three-dimensional mean-field model we study one-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) solitons on a weak two-dimensional (2D) square and triangular optical lattice (OL) potentials placed perpendicular to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-14 S. K. Adhikari , P. Muruganandam

We present an all-optical method for achieving molecular Bose-Einstein condensates of ${}^6\textrm{Li}$. We demonstrate this with mixtures in the lowest two (1-2), and second lowest two (2-3) hyperfine states. For the 1-2 mixture, we can…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Yun Long , Feng Xiong , Vinod Gaire , Cameron Galigan , Colin V. Parker

Deep optical lattices are considered, in each site of which there are many Bose-condensed atoms. By the resonant modulation of trapping potentials it is possible to transfer a macroscopic portion of atoms to the collective nonlinear states…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

We observe solitonic vortices in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate after free expansion. Clear signatures of the nature of such defects are the twisted planar density depletion around the vortex line, observed in absorption images, and the…

We report on the realization of a sodium Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) in a combined red-detuned optical dipole trap, formed by two beams crossing in a horizontal plane and a third, tightly focused dimple trap propagating vertically. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 David Jacob , Emmanuel Mimoun , Luigi De Sarlo , Martin Weitz , J. Dalibard , F. Gerbier

We propose a simple way to generate nonlinear excitations in a controllable way by managing interactions in Bose-Einstein condensates. Under the action of a quantum analogue of a classical piston the condensed atoms are pushed through the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-08-11 Florian Pinsker , Natalia G. Berloff , Víctor M. Pérez-García

It is shown that, through a super-radiant Rayleigh scattering, a strong far off-resonant pump laser applied to a Bose-Einstein condensates(BEC) can induce a non-demolition coupling of the many-mode quantized vacuum field to the BEC. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. P. Sun

We apply three machine learning strategies to optimize the atomic cooling processes utilized in the production of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). For the first time, we optimize both laser cooling and evaporative cooling mechanisms…

The processes of merging and splitting dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in the nonadiabatic, high-density regime. Rich dynamics are found. Depending on the experimental parameters, uniform soliton trains containing more than…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Chang , P. Engels , M. A. Hoefer