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A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in a one-dimensional lattice under the effect of an external homogeneous field is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Here we prove that such an equation can be reduced, in the semiclassical…

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We apply the technique of reinforcement learning to the control of nonlinear matter waves. In this method, an agent controls the position, strength, and shape of an external Gaussian potential to create and manipulate quantized vortices in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-15 Hiroki Saito

We take into account two further physical models which play an utmost importance in the framework of Analogue Gravity. We first consider Bose--Einstein condensates (BEC) and then surface gravity waves in water. Our approach is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 F. Belgiorno , S. L. Cacciatori , A. Farahat , A. Viganò

We report on a proposal to change the group velocity of a small Bose Einstein Condensate (BEC) upon collision with another BEC in analogy to slowing of light passing through dispersive media. We make use of ultracold collisions near a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 Ranchu Mathew , Eite Tiesinga

We study the properties of a weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a flat band lattice system by using multiband Bogoliubov theory, and discover fundamental connections to the underlying quantum geometry. In a flat band, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-26 Aleksi Julku , Georg M. Bruun , Päivi Törmä

We report on a numerical study of the critical velocity for creation of quantized vortices by a moving Gaussian obstacle in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, modeled by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We pay attention to impact of density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-12-05 Haruya Kokubo , Kenichi Kasamatsu

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

The axisymmetric acoustic perturbations in the velocity potential of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of a single vortex behave like minimally coupled massless scalar fields propagating in a curved (1+1) dimensional Lorentzian…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-22 Betül Demirkaya , Tekin Dereli , Kaan Güven

We investigate localization transitions in interacting Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) confined in tilted optical lattices, focusing on both the continuum limit accessed via shallow lattice depths and the tight-binding limit realized in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-20 Argha Debnath , Mariusz Gajda , Debraj Rakshit

Early during the era of cosmic inflation, rotational invariance may have been broken, only later emerging as a feature of low-energy physics. This motivates ongoing searches for residual signatures of anisotropic space-time, for example in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 Arun Rana , Abhijit Pendse , Sebastian Wüster , Sukanta Panda

We investigate the BCS-BEC crossover at zero temperature in the frame of a relativistic model. The universality of the BCS-BEC crossover for non-relativistic systems breaks down in relativistic case and the crossover can be induced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lianyi He , Pengfei Zhuang

We analyze spatio-temporal structures in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to study the dynamics of quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with mean-field interactions. A coherent structure ansatz yields a parametrically forced…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 Mason A. Porter , Predrag Cvitanovic

In the analogue gravity framework, the acoustic disturbances in a moving fluid can be described by an equation of motion identical to a relativistic scalar massless field propagating in a curved spacetime. This description is possible only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-06 Bethan Cropp , Stefano Liberati , Rodrigo Turcati

We rapidly change the scattering length a_s of a 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate by means of a Feshbach resonance, simultaneously releasing the condensate from its harmonic trapping potential. When a_s is changed from positive to negative,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-12-10 R. L. Compton , Y. -J. Lin , K. Jimenez-Garcia , J. V. Porto , I. B. Spielman

We account for the interaction of the Bose-condensed fraction with the normal phase in an effective dynamical equation such as the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We show that the low-energy excitations can be treated as sound waves with speed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. N. Ilinski , A. S. Stepanenko

The dynamics of weakly interacting three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), trapped in external axially symmetric plus anharmonic distortion potential are studied. Within a variational approach and time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-07-01 Hamid Al-Jibbouri

We analyze vector localized solutions of two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with variable nonlinearity parameter and external trap potential through similarity transformation technique which transforms the two coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-04-06 K. Manikandan , P. Muruganandam , M. Senthilvelan , M. Lakshmanan

We consider the possible existence of gravitationally bound general relativistic strings consisting of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) matter which is described, in the Newtonian limit, by the zero temperature time-dependent nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-29 Tiberiu Harko , Matthew J. Lake

Motivated by the recent achievement of space-based Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with ultracold alkali-metal atoms under microgravity and by the proposal of bubble traps which confine atoms on a thin shell, we investigate the BEC…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-22 A. Tononi , L. Salasnich

We study the low energy phonon dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a density profile that is equivalent, via a coordinate transformation, to phonons traveling in a \lq\lq spherical\rq\rq\ curved spacetime that realizes the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-06 J. Austin Chunn , Ruotong Zhai , Daniel E. Sheehy