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We investigate wetting phenomena between self-bound quantum fluids in a three-component Bose mixture of $^{23}$Na, $^{39}$K, and $^{41}$K atoms. Within a density-functional approach including mean-field interactions and Lee-Huang-Yang…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-28 Francesco Ancilotto

A self-bound dipolar quantum droplet modulated by an shallow optical latticeare studied. It is found that the behaviors of the droplets in an optical lattice are similar with those without the optical lattice. In the shallow enough limit…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-11 Yu-Jia Gao , La-Tai You , Gong-Ping Zheng

We study the canonical problem of a Fermi gas interacting with a weakly repulsive Bose-Einstein condensate at zero temperature. To explore the quantum phases across the full range of boson-fermion interactions, we construct a versatile…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-21 Sam Foster , Olivier Bleu , Jesper Levinsen , Meera M. Parish

We investigate the formation of quantum droplets at finite temperature in attractive Bose mixtures subject to a strong transverse harmonic confinement. By means of exact path-integral Monte Carlo methods we determine the equilibrium density…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-20 Gabriele Spada , Sebastiano Pilati , Stefano Giorgini

We study the properties of self-bound liquid droplets of three-dimensional Bose mixtures in a weak random potential with Gaussian correlation function at both zero and finite temperatures. Using the Bogoliubov theory, we derive useful…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-09 Karima Abbas , Abdelaali Boudjemaa

We demonstrate the existence of quantum droplets in two-component one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard chains. The droplets exist for any strength of repulsive intra-species interactions provided they are balanced by comparable attractive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-04-15 Ivan Morera , Grigori E. Astrakharchik , Artur Polls , Bruno Juliá-Díaz

Recent experiments have created supersolids of dipolar quantum droplets. The resulting crystals lack, however, a genuine cohesive energy and are maintained by the presence of an external confinement, bearing a resemblance to the case of ion…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-05 Maria Arazo , Albert Gallemí , Montserrat Guilleumas , Ricardo Mayol , Luis Santos

Quantum droplets can emerge in bosonic binary magnetic gases (BMGs) from the interplay of short- and long-ranged interactions, and quantum fluctuations. We develop an extended meanfield theory for this system and use it to predict…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-20 Joseph C. Smith , D. Baillie , P. B. Blakie

We investigate the formation of self-bound quantum droplets in a one-dimensional binary mixture of bosonic atoms, applying the method of numerical diagonalization of the full Hamiltonian. The excitation spectra and ground-state pair…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-02-02 L. Chergui , J. Bengtsson , J. Bjerlin , P. Stürmer , G. M. Kavoulakis , S. M. Reimann

We numerically study the many-body physics of molecular Bose-Einstein condensates with strong dipole-dipole interactions. We observe the formation of self-bound droplets, and explore phase diagrams that feature a variety of exotic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-07 Matthias Schmidt , Lucas Lassablière , Goulven Quéméner , Tim Langen

We present experimental evidence of photon droplets in an attractive (focusing) nonlocal nonlinear medium. Photon droplets are self-bound, finite-sized states of light that are robust to size and shape perturbations due to a balance of…

Ultracold gases of dipolar molecules have long been envisioned as a platform for the realization of novel quantum phases. Recent advances in collisional shielding, protecting molecules from inelastic losses, have enabled the creation of…

Ultracold atoms offer valuable opportunities where interparticle interactions can be controlled at will. In particular, by extinguishing the two-body interaction, one can realize unique systems governed by the three-body interaction, which…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-31 Yuta Sekino , Yusuke Nishida

Multimode optical cavities can be used to implement interatomic interactions which are highly tunable in strength and range. For bosonic atoms trapped in an optical lattice, cavity-mediated interactions compete with the short-range…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-03-23 P. Karpov , F. Piazza

Recent observations of droplets in dipolar and binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) motivates us to study the theory of droplet formation in detail. Precisely, we are interested in investigating the possibility of droplet formation in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-26 Argha Debnath , Ayan Khan

We study the quantum fluctuations in the condensates of a mixture of bosonic atoms and molecules with interspecies p-wave interaction. Our analysis shows that the quantum phase of coexisting atomic and molecular condensates is unstable at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-27 Zehan Li , Jian-Song Pan , W. Vincent Liu

We investigate a two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate that is optically driven via a retro-reflecting mirror, forming a single optical feedback loop. This induces a peculiar type of long-range atomic interaction with highly oscillatory…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-10 Yong-Chang Zhang , Valentin Walther , Thomas Pohl

This Letter investigates the formation of quantum droplets in curved spacetime, highlighting the significant influence of curvature on the formation and properties of these objects. While our computations encompass various dimensions, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Antonino Flachi , Takahiro Tanaka

We introduce a novel type of self-bound droplet which carries an emergent color charge. We consider a system of particles hopping on a lattice and interacting via a commensurately sign-changing potential which is attractive at a short…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-11 P. Karpov , F. Piazza

We theoretically investigate the self-evaporation dynamics of quantum droplets in a 41K-87Rb mixture, in free-space. The dynamical formation of the droplet and the effects related to the presence of three-body losses are analyzed by means…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-06-11 Chiara Fort , Michele Modugno