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We consider a Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a rotating harmonic potential, in connection with recent experiments leading to the formation of vortices. We use the classical hydrodynamic approximation to the non-linear Schr\"odinger…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Subhasis Sinha , Yvan Castin

We analyse the necessary and sufficient conditions for the occurrence of superradiance. Starting with a wave equation we examine the possibility of superradiance in terms of an effective potential and boundary conditions. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Mauricio Richartz , Silke Weinfurtner , A. J. Penner , W. G. Unruh

Atomic superfluids formed using Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in a ring trap are currently being investigated in the context of superfluid hydrodynamics, quantum sensing and matter-wave interferometry. The characterization of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Rahul Gupta , Pardeep Kumar , Rina Kanamoto , M. Bhattacharya , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

We consider scattering atoms from a fully Bose-Einstein condensed gas. If we take these atoms to be identical to those in the Bose-Einstein condensate, this scattering process is to a large extent analogous to Andreev reflection from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 M. J. Bijlsma , H. T. C. Stoof

We consider the quantum dynamics of interacting bosons in the mean-field regime when they are subjected to a disordered potential, which is either random or quasi-periodic. Starting from a spatially localized Bose-Einstein condensate, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Marius Lemm , Simone Rademacher , Jingxuan Zhang

We investigate the effects of phase noise and particle loss on the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical lattice. Starting from the many-body master equation, we discuss the applicability of generalized mean-field…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-19 D. Witthaut , F. Trimborn , H. Hennig , G. Kordas , T. Geisel , S. Wimberger

We compute the ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate confined on a curved surface and unravel the effects of curvatures. Starting with a general formulation for any smooth surface, we apply it to a prolate ellipsoid, which is inspired…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-27 Sheilla M. de Oliveira , Natália Salomé Móller

Quantum black holes are difficult to describe. We consider two seemingly divergent approaches, high-energy scattering and the proposal to regard black holes as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons, and establish a connection between them.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Florian Kuhnel , Bo Sundborg

Spin-orbit-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates are a flexible experimental platform to engineer synthetic quantum many-body systems. In particular, they host the so-called stripe phase, an instance of a supersolid state of matter. The…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 C. S. Chisholm , S. Hirthe , V. B. Makhalov , R. Ramos , R. Vatré , J. Cabedo , A. Celi , L. Tarruell

Mean field approximation treats only coherent aspects of the evolution of a Bose Einstein condensate. However, in many experiments some atoms scatter out of the condensate. We study an analytic model of two counter-propagating atomic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Zin , J. Chwedenczuk , A. Perez , K. Rzazewski , M. Trippenbach

It is shown that the quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate is experimentally accessible and rich in intriguing phenomena. We demonstrate numerically and analytically the existence, stability, and perturbation-induced dynamics of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Lincoln D. Carr , Mary Ann Leung , William P. Reinhardt

Recent experiments on Bose--Einstein condensates in optical cavities have reported a quantum phase transition to a coherent state of the matter-light system -- superradiance. The time dependent nature of these experiments demands…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-08-17 J. Keeling , M. J. Bhaseen , B. D. Simons

We investigate the flow of a one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger model with periodic boundary conditions past an obstacle, motivated by recent experiments with Bose--Einstein condensates in ring traps. Above certain rotation velocities,…

Various widely-used mean-field type theories for a dilute Bose gas are critically examined in the light of the recent discovery of Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases in a confined geometry. By numerically solving the mean-field…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Tomoya Isoshima , Kazushige Machida

We investigate spatiotemporal vortex rings with phase dislocation both in space and time. It is demonstrated that these structures naturally appear as a periodical in time edge phase dislocation at the low-density region of a perturbed…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-03-06 O. G. Chelpanova , Y. I. Kuriatnikov , S. Vilchinskii , A. I. Yakimenko

We investigate the effect of inter-atomic interactions on the quantum-mechanical reflection of Bose-Einstein condensates from regions of rapid potential variation. The reflection process depends critically on the density and incident…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 R. G. Scott , A. M. Martin , T. M. Fromhold , F. W. Sheard

Superfluids are distinguished from ordinary fluids by the quantized manner the rotation is manifested in them. Precisely, quantized vortices are known to appear in the bulk of a superfluid subject to external rotation. In this work we study…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-10-09 Marios C. Tsatsos , Axel U. J. Lode

We investigate the interference of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates in micro-gravity, which influenced by the interaction strength, initial momentum, gravitational potential and phase difference. We demonstrate that the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-01-03 Tie-Fu Zhang , Hao Zhu , Wen-Kai Bai , Kai Liu , Yi-Hui Xing , Wu-Ming Liu

A one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate may experience nonlinear periodic modulations known as "cnoidal waves". We argue that such structures represent promising candidates for the study of supersolidity-related phenomena in a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-17 Giovanni I. Martone , Alessio Recati , Nicolas Pavloff

We study the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in tilted and driven optical superlattices. For a bichromatic lattice, each Bloch band split up into two minibands such that the dynamics is governed by the interplay of Bloch oscillations…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-04-20 D. Witthaut , F. Trimborn , V. Kegel , H. J. Korsch