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We report the experimental observation of the disruption of the superfluid atomic current flowing through an array of weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates. The condensates are trapped in an optical lattice superimposed on a harmonic…

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We study localized nonlinear excitations of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit coupling in a deep optical lattice (OL). We use Wannier functions to derive a tight-binding model that includes the spin-orbit coupling…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-01-30 Mario Salerno , Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev

The phenomenon of dynamical localization of matter wave solitons in optical lattices is first demonstrated and the conditions for its existence are discussed. In addition to the trapping linear periodic potential we use a periodic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-12-23 Yu. V. Bludov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

We predict wide-band suppression of tunneling of spin-orbit-coupled atoms (or noninteracting Bose-Einstein condensate) in a double-well potential with periodically varying depths of the potential wells. The suppression of tunneling is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-19 Y. V. Kartashov , V. V. Konotop , V. A. Vysloukh

By developing a hydrodynamic formalism, we investigate the expansion dynamics of the single-minimum phase of a binary spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate, after releasing from an external harmonic trap. We find that the expansion of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-01 Chunlei Qu , Lev P. Pitaevskii , Sandro Stringari

A weakly interacting, spin-orbit coupled, two-component, ultracold Bose gas bound to a Bravais lattice is studied. Motivated by recent experimental advances in the field of synthetically spin-orbit coupled, ultracold, neutral atomic gases…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-24 Kristian Mæland

We demonstrate that there exist stationary states of Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical lattice that do not satisfy the usual Bloch periodicity condition. Using the discrete model appropriate to the tight-binding limit we determine…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Machholm , A. Nicolin , C. J. Pethick , H. Smith

We consider the quasi-2D two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with Rashba spin-orbit (SO) coupling in a rotating trap. An external Zeeman term favoring spin polarization along the radial direction is also considered, which has the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-04-27 Xiang-Fa Zhou , Jing Zhou , Congjun Wu

A Bose-Einstein condensate is dispersively coupled to a single mode of an ultra-high finesse optical cavity. The system is governed by strong interactions between the atomic motion and the light field even at the level of single quanta.…

We evaluate the particle current flowing in steady state through a Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a constant force in a quasi-onedimensional lattice and to attractive interactions from fermionic atoms that are localized in various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Vignolo , Z. Akdeniz , M. P. Tosi

We study the spatiotemporal Bloch states of a high-frequency driven two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in an optical lattice. By adopting the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) and applying an exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Yawen Wei , Chao Kong , Wenhua Hai

With the discovery of various matter wave solitons in spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), exploring their properties has become increasingly significant. We mainly study stationary and moving bright solitons in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-09-04 JunTao He , Ji Lin

We study the dynamics of binary Bose-Einstein condensates made of ultracold and dilute alkali-metal atoms in a quasi-one-dimensional setting. Numerically solving the two coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations which accurately describe the…

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

We study the dynamics of a Rashba spin-orbit coupled spin-1 ferromagnetic Bose-Einstein condensate under a linear Zeeman magnetic field(ZF) disturbed by a moving obstacle. The Bogoliubov excitation spectrums and corresponding critical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-30 Qing-Li Zhu , Lihua Pan , Jin An

We introduce a discrete model for binary spin-orbit-coupled (SOC) Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) trapped in a deep one-dimensional optical lattice. Two different types of the couplings are considered, with spatial derivatives acting inside…

We consider a macroscopic spin qubit based on spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates, where, in addition to the spin-orbit coupling, spin dynamics strongly depends on the interaction between particles. The evolution of the spin for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Sh. Mardonov , M. Modugno , E. Ya. Sherman

We consider Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to the action of spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) periodically modulated in the radial direction. In contrast to the commonly known principle that periodic potentials do not create bound states,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-15 Chunyan Li , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

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

We show that the phenomenon of modulational instability in arrays of Bose-Einstein condensates confined to optical lattices gives rise to coherent spatial structures of localized excitations. These excitations represent thin disks in 1D,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 B. B. Baizakov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno