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We experimentally show that dipolar interaction can stabilize otherwise unstable many-body systems like an attractive Bose gas. In a one dimensional lattice the repulsive dipolar on-site interaction balances negative scattering lengths up…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-02-03 S. Müller , J. Billy , E. A. L. Henn , H. Kadau , A. Griesmaier , M. Jona-Lasinio , L. Santos , T. Pfau

Nanoscale ferroelectric topologies such as vortices, anti-vortices, bubble patterns etc. are stabilized in thin films by a delicate balance of both mechanical and electrical boundary conditions. A systematic understanding of the phase…

We introduce an arbitrary order, stabilized finite element method for solving a unique continuation problem subject to the time-harmonic elastic wave equation with variable coefficients. Based on conditional stability estimates we prove…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Erik Burman , Janosch Preuss

We analyze the metastability of Bose-Hubbard condensates for finite-size one-dimensional ring lattices and open chains, using a semiclassical tomographic perspective that emphasizes the relation of the many-body spectrum to the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rajat , Doron Cohen

We investigate the stability of an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate in a moving 1D optical lattice in the presence of transverse confinement. By means of a Bogoliubov linear stability analysis we find that the system is dynamically…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Barontini , M. Modugno

We consider small systems of bosonic atoms rotating in a toroidal trap. Using the method of exact numerical diagonalization of the many-body Hamiltonian, we examine the transition from the Bose-Einstein condensed state to the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 G. M. Kavoulakis , Y. Yu , M. Ogren , S. M. Reimann

We study zero-temperature quantum fluctuations in harmonically trapped one-dimensional interacting Bose gases, using the self-consistent multiconfigurational time-dependent Hartree method. We define $phase$ $fluctuations$ from the full…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-04-11 Oleksandr V. Marchukov , Uwe R. Fischer

The properties of the superfluid phase of ultra cold bosonic atoms loaded in a circular array are investigated in the framework of the Bose-Hubbard model and the Bogoliubov theory. We derive and solve the Gross-Pitaevskii equation of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-09-07 E. T. D. Matsushita , E. J. V. de Passos

Time crystals are classified as discrete or continuous depending on whether they spontaneously break discrete or continuous time translation symmetry. While discrete time crystals have been extensively studied in periodically driven systems…

To investigate the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation in perfect crystals a hierarchy of equations for reduced density matrices that describes a thermodynamically equilibrium quantum system is employed, the hierarchy being obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-20 V. A. Golovko

We examine the distinct discrete time crystals (DTCs) that emerge in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model, subjected to spatially nonuniform periodic driving. Intriguingly, we demonstrate that by appropriately tailoring the drive protocol,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Shashank Mishra , Sayan Choudhury

The hyperspherical adiabatic method is used to derive stability criteria for Bose-Einstein condensates in deformed external fields. An analytical approximation is obtained. For constant volume the highest stability is found for spherical…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Sørensen , D. V. Fedorov , A. S. Jensen

In this article, we discuss the stability of soft quasicrystalline phases in a coupled-mode Swift-Hohenberg model for three-component systems, where the characteristic length scales are governed by the positive-definite gradient terms.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-20 Kai Jiang , Jiajun Tong , Pingwen Zhang

The effects of the cosmological constant on the static equilibrium configurations and stability against small radial perturbations of relativistic polytropic spheres are investigated. This study numerically solves the hydrostatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 José D. V. Arbañil , Pedro H. R. S. Moraes

Topological photonics has recently emerged as a very general framework for the design of unidirectional edge waveguides immune to back-scattering and deformations, as well as other platforms that feature extreme nonreciprocal wave…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-01 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

A general formulation is presented to derive the equation of motion and to demonstrate thermodynamic consistency for several classes of phase field models at once. It applies to models with a conserved phase field, describing either uniform…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-05-06 Mowei Cheng , Stefaan Cottenier , Heike Emmerich

We introduce a homogenization approach to characterize the dynamical response of a generic dispersive spacetime crystal in the long-wavelength limit. The theory is applied to dispersive spacetime platforms with a travelling-wave modulation.…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-26 João C. Serra , Mário G. Silveirinha

We have constructed and characterised an instrument to study gravitationally bouncing droplets of fluid, subjected to periodic driving force. Our system incorporates a droplet printer that enables an on-demand computer controlled deposition…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-12 Tapio Simula

The stability of a vortex glass phase with quasi-long-range positional order is examined for a disordered layered superconductor. The role of topological defects is investigated using a detailed scaling argument, supplemented by a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Kierfeld , T. Nattermann , T. Hwa

The author proposed in his previous papers in 2001 that the problem of the cosmological constant could be resolved and its calculated value agrees excellently with the observations by assuming that the space-time itself, as the phase of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. M. Mok