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Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) cosmology is analyzed in the framework of a string-inspired axion model. The dispersion relation of the axionic mode includes both gravitational and self-interaction terms, the latter being small in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-28 Takeshi Fukuyama

Recent conjectures that there are mesoscopically ``large'' extra dimensions, through which gravity propagates have interesting implications for much of physics. The scenario implies gross departures from Newton's law of gravity at small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steinn Sigurdsson

We study discrete time crystal formation in a system driven periodically by an oscillating atomic mirror, consisting of two distinct ultracold atomic clouds in the presence of a gravitational field. The intra-species interactions are weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-30 Weronika Golletz , Krzysztof Sacha

Using wave kinetics, we estimate the emergence time-scale of gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates/Bose stars in the kinetic regime for a general multicomponent Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson (SP) system. We identify some effects of the diffusion…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Mudit Jain , Mustafa A. Amin , Jonathan Thomas , Wisha Wanichwecharungruang

Magnon Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) and supercurrents are coherent quantum phenomena, which appear on a macroscopic scale in parametrically populated solid state spinsystems. One of the most fascinating and attractive features of these…

Producing a substantial and stable resonant Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) has proven to be a challenging experimental task due to heating and three-body losses that may occur even before the gas comes to thermal equilibrium. In this paper,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 M. W. C. Sze , J. L. Bohn

Coherent wave states such as Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), which spontaneously form in an overpopulated magnon gas even at room temperature, have considerable potential for wave-based computing and information processing at microwave…

We show how to vary the physical properties of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in order to mimic an effective gravitational-wave spacetime. In particular, we focus in the simulation of the recently discovered creation of particles by real…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Tupac Bravo , Carlos Sabín , Ivette Fuentes

The calculation of quantum dynamics is currently a central issue in theoretical physics, with diverse applications ranging from ultra-cold atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) to condensed matter, biology, and even astrophysics. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-02 Mark R. Dowling , Peter D. Drummond , Matthew J. Davis , Piotr Deuar

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of neutral atoms constitute an important quantum system for fundamental research and precision metrology. Many applications require short preparation times of BECs, for example, for optimized data…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Mareike Hetzel , Martin Quensen , Jan Simon Haase , Carsten Klempt

We assume that dark matter is composed of scalar particles that form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at some point during the cosmic evolution. Afterwards, cold dark matter is in the form of a condensate and behaves slightly different from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hermano Velten , Etienne Wamba

We present studies of the time-evolution of a two-component system of Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in the |F=1, mf=-1> and |2,1> spin states of Rb-87. The two condensates are created with a well-defined relative phase and complete…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 D. S. Hall , M. R. Matthews , J. R. Ensher , C. E. Wieman , E. A. Cornell

We report the reflection and focussing of a Bose-Einstein condensate by a new pulsed magnetic mirror. The mirror is adaptive, inelastic, and of extremely high optical quality. The deviations from specularity are less than 0.5 mrad rms,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 A. S. Arnold , C. MacCormick , M. G. Boshier

The recent achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation of chromium atoms [1] has opened longed-for experimental access to a degenerate quantum gas with long-range and anisotropic interaction. Due to the large magnetic moment of chromium atoms…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Griesmaier , Jürgen Stuhler , Tilman Pfau

Using magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen as an example, we investigate the prospects of achieving Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute Bose gas. We show that, if the gas is quenched sufficiently far into the critical region of the phase…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. C. Stoof

We present a compact and versatile experimental system for producing Bose-Bose superfluid mixtures composed of sodium and potassium atoms. The compact design combines the necessary ultra-high vacuum enviroment for ultracold atom experiments…

Under suitable experimental conditions collective spin-wave excitations, magnons, form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) where the spins precess with a globally coherent phase. Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons has been reported in a few…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-08-20 Jere T. Mäkinen , Samuli Autti , Vladimir B. Eltsov

By including appropriate Riemman cubic invariants, we find that the dynamics of classical time crystals can be straightforwardly realized in Einstein gravity on the FLRW metric. The time reflection symmetry is spontaneously broken in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-25 Xing-Hui Feng , Hyat Huang , Shou-Long Li , H. Lu , Hao Wei

We have studied theoretically the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of two-dimensional excitons in a ring with small random width variation. We derive a nonlinear Gross-Pitaevkii equation (GPE) for such a condensate. Our numerical solution…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 S. -R. Eric Yang , Q-Han Park , J. Yeo

A two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) split by a radial potential barrier is investigated. We determine on an accurate many-body level the system's ground-state phase diagram as well as a time-dependent phase diagram of the…