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We study the formation of quantum droplets in the mixture of a single-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), and a two-species Fermi superfluid across a wide Feshbach resonance. With repulsive boson-boson and attractive boson-fermion…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-07 Jing-Bo Wang , Jian-Song Pan , Xiaoling Cui , Wei Yi

Given the right set of circumstances, ultracold quantum gases are able to change character and condense into a liquid state of quantum droplets. The size distribution of the droplets is determined dynamically in the condensation process. A…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-20 Ian G. Moss

Relativistic high energy heavy ion collision cross sections have been interpreted in terms of almost ideal liquid droplets of nuclear matter. The experimental low viscosity of these nuclear fluids have been of considerable recent quantum…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Parihar , A. Widom , D. Drosdoff , Y. N. Srivastava

We study the stability of quantum droplet and its associated phase transitions in ultracold Bose-Bose mixtures uniformly confined in quasi-two-dimension. We show that the confinement-induced boundary effect can be significant when…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-14 Xiaoling Cui , Yinfeng Ma

Minijets and jets are produced in large numbers in nuclear collisions at TeV energies, so that there are many of them in a single fireball. They deposit non-negligible amount of momentum and energy into the hydrodynamically expanding bulk…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Boris Tomasik , Martin Schulc

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 study the instability of a mixture of two interacting counter-flowing superfluids. For a homogeneous system, we show that superfluid hydrodynamics leads to the existence of a dynamical instability at a critical value of the relative…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Abad , A. Recati , S. Stringari , F. Chevy

We consider a general problem of inelastic collision of particles interacting with power-law potentials. Using quantum defect theory we derive an analytical formula for the energy-dependent complex scattering length, valid for arbitrary…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 Krzysztof Jachymski , Michał Krych , Paul S. Julienne , Zbigniew Idziaszek

Surface icing affects the safety and performance of numerous processes in technology. Previous studies mostly investigated freezing of individual droplets. The interaction among multiple droplets during freezing is investigated less,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-23 Gustav Graeber , Valentin Dolder , Thomas M. Schutzius , Dimos Poulikakos

We show how the dynamics of collisions between cold atoms can be manipulated by a modification of spontaneous emission times. This is achieved by placing the atomic sample in a resonant optical cavity. Spontaneous emission is enhanced by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. I. Kim , R. B. B. Santos , P. Nussenzveig.

Droplet microfluidics, in which micro-droplets serve as individual reactors, has enabled a wide range of high-throughput biochemical processes. Unlike solid wells typically used in current biochemical assays, droplets are subject to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-03 Ya Gai , Andrea Montessori , Sauro Succi , Sindy K. Y. Tang

We simulate a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate in the strongly dipolar regime, observing the existence of self-bound droplets, as well as their splitting into multiple droplets by confinement-induced frustration. Our quantum Monte Carlo…

A two-component quantum droplet is an attractive mixture of ultracold bosons stabilised against collapse by quantum fluctuations. Commonly, two-component quantum droplets are studied within a balanced mixture. However, the mixture can be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-11 Thomas A. Flynn , Nick A. Keepfer , Nick G. Parker , Thomas P. Billam

A fundamental question in the study of chemical reactions is how reactions proceed at a collision energy close to absolute zero. This question is no longer hypothetical: quantum degenerate gases of atoms and molecules can now be created at…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 J. F. E. Croft , C. Makrides , M. Li , A. Petrov , B. K. Kendrick , N. Balakrishnan , S. Kotochigova

Collisions between a stream of drops and a continuous jet of a different liquid are experimentally investigated. In contrast to previous studies, our work focuses on the effects of liquid miscibility and wettability on the collision…

Ultra-cold RbCs molecules in high-lying vibrational levels of the a$^3\Sigma^+$ ground electronic state are confined in an optical trap. Inelastic collision rates of these molecules with both Rb and Cs atoms are determined for individual…

We study the beam energy dependence of equilibration process and space-time characteristics of participant and spectator matter. For this, we simulated the semi-central collisions of $^{40}Ca+ ^{40}Ca$ at incident energies of 400, 600 and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-12-05 Yogesh K. Vermani , Mandeep Kaur

Using molecular simulation, we study the nucleation of liquid droplets from binary mixtures and determine the free energy of nucleation along entropic pathways. To this aim, we develop the $\mu_1 \mu_2 VT-S$ method, based on the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-25 Caroline Desgranges , Jerome Delhommelle

"Hot atoms", which are atoms in their excited states, transfer their energy to the surrounding atmosphere through collisions. This process of energy transfer is known as thermalization, and it plays a crucial role in various astrophysical…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-13 Sanchit Kumar , Sumit Kumar , Marko Gacesa , Nayla El-Kork , Sharma S. R. K. C. Yamijala

We present a thermodynamic description of ultracold gases with dipolar interactions which properly accounts for the long-range nature and broken rotation invariance of the interactions. It involves an additional thermodynamic field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-16 Wilhelm Zwerger