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We investigate a dilute Bose gas with both a short-range contact and an effective long-range interaction between the atoms. The latter is induced by the strong coupling to a cavity light mode and is spatially characterized by a periodic…

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We apply a recently introduced model for an independent-atom-like calculation of ion-impact electron transfer and ionization cross sections to proton collisions from water, neon, and carbon clusters. The model is based on a geometrical…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2018-12-20 Hans Jürgen Lüdde , Marko Horbatsch , Tom Kirchner

The fluidity of the hot and dense QCD matter is a key characteristic of the medium created in high-energy heavy-ion collisions. We extend the framework of the relativistic hydrodynamic model to incorporate non-thermal momentum distributions…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Akihiko Monnai

A theory of nucleus-nucleus collisions has been developed for kinetic energies substantially in excess of the binding energy. The very high pressure produced in the compound system as a result of the fusion of the two colliding nuclei is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. G. Nosov , A. M. Kamchatnov

We investigate bubble dynamics in a holographic superfluid undergoing a first-order phase transition with spontaneous $U(1)$ symmetry breaking. Near the nucleation threshold, the system exhibits universal critical behavior governed by a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-21 Zhen-han Jin , Yu-ping An , Li Li

We have examined the head-on collision of two electrons in approximation of coherent states. We have shown that the character of collision depends mainly on ratio of initial relative electron's momentum to momentum uncertainty of electrons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. V. Usenko , V. O. Gnatovskyy , N. A. Cherkashina

We combine theory, numerical simulation and experiments to investigate the breakup of two identical droplets entering a Y-junction with controlled spatial offset by which the second droplet trails the first. Based on fully resolved 3D…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-08-04 Simon Schütz , Jian Wei Khor , Sindy K. Y. Tang , Tobias M. Schneider

The existence of quantum droplets in binary Bose-Einstein condensate mixtures rely on beyondmean field effects, competing with mean-field effects. Interestingly, the beyond-mean field effect is changing from repulsive in 3D to attractive in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-26 L Lavoine , T Bourdel

Spin-exchange collisions in alkali vapors have been at the basis of several fundamental and applied investigations, like nuclear structure studies and tests of fundamental symmetries, ultra-sensitive atomic magnetometers, magnetic resonance…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-10-16 K. Mouloudakis , M. Loulakis , I. K. Kominis

Using state-of-the-art rare-event sampling simulations, we precisely characterize the nucleation of liquid droplets from a supersaturated Lennard-Jones gas and uncover a key physical feature: critical clusters nucleate with a density that…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Yijian Wu , Thomas Philippe , Aymane Graini , Julien Lam

Superradiance and subradiance occur in quantum optics when the emission rate of photons from multiple atoms is enhanced and diminished, respectively, owing to interaction between neighboring atoms. We here demonstrate a classical analog…

Quantum droplets have been recently observed in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and in BEC mixtures. This forms the motivation for us to explore the dynamics of these droplets. We make use of the Extended Gross-Pitaevski equation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-14 Akshat Pandey , Ayan Khan

Quantum collision models (CMs) provide advantageous case studies for investigating major issues in open quantum systems theory, and especially quantum non-Markovianity. After reviewing their general definition and distinctive features, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Francesco Ciccarello

In this video, Ray-tracing data visualization technique was used to obtain realistic and detailed flow motions during droplet collision. The differences of collision outcome between Newtonian and non-Newtonian were compared. Various types…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-10-16 Xiaodong Chen , Vigor Yang

Explicit realization of quantum droplets, even and odd Schr\"{o}dinger cat states is demonstrated in an atom-molecular Bose-Einstein condensate in the presence of interconversion and Kerr non-linear interactions. The crucial roles of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Leena Barshilia , Rajiuddin Sk , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Avinash Khare

To model isotropic homogeneous quantum turbulence in superfluid helium, we have performed Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of two fluids (the normal fluid and the superfluid) coupled by mutual friction. We have found evidence of strong…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Philippe-Emmanuel P. -E. Roche , Carlo F. Barenghi , Emmanuel Lévêque

Repulsively interacting particles in a periodic potential can form bound composite objects, whose dissociation is suppressed by a band gap. Nearly pure samples of such repulsively bound pairs of cold atoms -- "dimers" -- have recently been…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-03-31 David Petrosyan , Bernd Schmidt , James R. Anglin , Michael Fleischhauer

We use molecular dynamics simulations to study the evaporation of particle-laden droplets on a heated surface. The droplets are composed of a Lennard-Jones fluid containing rigid particles which are spherical sections of an atomic lattice,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-04 Weikang Chen , Joel Koplik , Ilona Kretzschmar

Bose mixture quantum droplets display a fascinating stability that relies on quantum fluctuations to prevent collapse driven by mean-field effects. Most droplet research focuses on untrapped or weakly trapped scenarios, where the droplets…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-27 T. A. Yoğurt , U. Tanyeri , A. Keleş , M. Ö. Oktel

From the microscopic theory, we derive a number conserving quantum kinetic equation, valid for a dilute Bose gas at any temperature, in which the binary collisions between the quasi-particles are mediated by phonon-like excitations (called…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Patrick Navez