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Impurity atoms propagating at variable velocities through a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate were produced using a stimulated Raman transition. The redistribution of momentum by collisions between the impurity atoms and the stationary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 A. P. Chikkatur , A. Gorlitz , D. M. Stamper-Kurn , S. Inouye , S. Gupta , W. Ketterle

We demonstrate that the model of a spatially non-uniform two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) featuring the helicoidal spin-orbit coupling (SOC), gives rise to dark-bright soliton complexes characterized by spatiotemporal periodic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-20 Cui-Cui Ding , Qin Zhou , B. A. Malomed

Attractive Bose-Einstein condensates can host two types of macroscopic self-bound states of different nature: bright solitons and quantum liquid droplets. Here, we investigate the connection between them with a Bose-Bose mixture confined in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-04-04 P. Cheiney , C. R. Cabrera , J. Sanz , B. Naylor , L. Tanzi , L. Tarruell

Important properties of complex quantum many-body systems and their phase diagrams can often already be inferred from the impurity limit. The Bose polaron problem describing an impurity atom immersed in a Bose-Einstein condensate is a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-06 Arthur Christianen , J. Ignacio Cirac , Richard Schmidt

Impurities embedded in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) of 39K atoms are investigated with a pump-probe ejection spectroscopy sequence. The spectroscopic signal exhibits a strong feature corresponding to a Bose polaron in agreement with…

We experimentally generate sine-Gordon-like solitons in a spin-1 spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) utilizing a robust and reproducible local phase-imprinting scheme. We find that the soliton velocity can be tuned by the effective…

Vector solitons are a type of solitary, or non-spreading wavepacket occurring in a nonlinear medium comprised of multiple components. As such, a variety of synthetic systems can be constructed to explore their properties, from nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-22 Xiao Chai , Di Lao , Kazuya Fujimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Masahito Ueda , Chandra Raman

A self consistent theory of a cigar shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) periodically modulated by a laser beam is presented. We show, both theoretically and numerically, that modulational instability/stability is the mechanism by which…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

Spontaneous pattern formation out of homogeneous media is one of the well-understood examples of hydrodynamic instabilities in classical systems, which naturally leads to the question of its manifestation in quantum fluids. Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-01-12 Kiryang Kwon , Jae-yoon Choi

We propose an experimentally relevant protocol for the controlled generation of matter-wave dark solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). In particular, using direct numerical simulations, we show that by switching-on a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 C. Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis , T. P. Horikis , D. J. Frantzeskakis

Experiments on attractive Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have unlocked many intriguing out-of-equilibrium dynamics through the interplay between matter-wave dispersion and nonlinear attractive interaction. Competition between these…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-16 Hikaru Tamura , Chen-Lung Hung

The phases of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with light-induced spin-orbit coupling (SOC) are studied within the mean-field approximation. The mixed BEC phase, in which the system condenses in a superposition of two plane wave states, is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Qin-Qin Lü , Daniel E. Sheehy

We investigate the dynamics of a binary mixture of Bose-Einstein condensates in the impurity limit -- where one component is dilute enough to be treated like an impurity -- and confined to two dimensions. Using the mean-field coupled…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2026-04-28 Dileep K , S Murugesh

We report on the controlled creation of multiple soliton complexes of the dark-bright type in one-dimensional two-component, three-component and spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. The formation of these states is based on the so-called…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-06-05 A. Romero-Ros , G. C. Katsimiga , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher

We consider composite bosons (cobosons) comprised of two elementary particles, fermions or bosons, in an entangled state. First, we show that the effective number of cobosons implies the level of correlation between the two constituent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Su-Yong Lee , Jayne Thompson , Sadegh Raeisi , Pawel Kurzynski , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

The $1/r$ long-range interaction, induced by laser illumination, offers a mechanism for the implementation of stable self-trapping in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) in the three-dimensional free space. Using the variational approximation…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-15 Zibin Zhao , Guilong Li , Huanbo Luo , Bin Liu , Guihua Chen , Boris A. Malomed , Yongyao Li

We present an experimental system to study the Bose polaron by immersion of single, well-controllable neutral Cs impurities into a Rb Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We show that, by proper optical traps, independent control over impurity…

We propose a method for the generation of trains of alternating bright solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, using controlled emission of nonlinear matter-waves in the uncoupled regime with spatially-varying intra-species…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-10-01 V. A. Brazhnyi , David Novoa , Chandroth P. Jisha

We propose and investigate a pump-probe spectroscopy scheme to unveil the time-resolved dynamics of fermionic or bosonic impurities immersed in a harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate. In this scheme a pump pulse initially transfers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 S. I. Mistakidis , G. C. Katsimiga , G. M. Koutentakis , Th. Busch , P. Schmelcher

Mobile impurities in a Bose-Einstein condensate form quasiparticles called polarons. Here, we show that two such polarons can bind to form a bound bipolaron state. Its emergence is caused by an induced nonlocal interaction mediated by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-12 A. Camacho-Guardian , L. A. Peña Ardila , T. Pohl , G. M. Bruun