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We investigate the dynamics of a quantum oscillator, whose evolution is monitored by a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in a symmetric double well potential. It is demonstrated that the oscillator may experience various degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 S. Brouard , D. Alonso , D. Sokolovski

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…

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General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Heui-Seol Roh

Quantum sensors based on matter-wave interferometry are promising candidates for high-precision gravimetry and inertial sensing in space. The favorable source for the coherent matter waves in these devices are Bose-Einstein condensates. A…

In this work, we study the quantum fluctuation dynamics in a Bose gas on a torus $\Lambda=(L\mathbb{T})^3$ that exhibits Bose-Einstein condensation, beyond the leading order Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) fluctuations. Given a Bose-Einstein…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Thomas Chen , Michael Hott

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one dimensional optical lattice in the limit of weak atom-atom interactions. Numerically we find that a BEC may develop a pulsating instability in which atoms nearly…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-09-29 Uttam Shrestha

Measuring the effect of gravity on antimatter is a longstanding problem in physics that has significant implications for our understanding of the fundamental nature of the universe. Here, we present a technique to measure the gravitational…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Boaz Raz , Gavriel Fleurov , Roi Holtzman , Nir Davidson , Eli Sarid

Proposed experiments for obtaining empirical evidence for a quantum description of gravity in a table-top setting focus on detecting quantum information signatures, such as entanglement or non-Gaussianity production, in gravitationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Thomas Strasser , Marios Christodoulou , Richard Howl , Caslav Brukner

In the quest to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity, the concept of gravitons as quantum carriers of gravitational force stands as a pivotal yet unproven hypothesis. This work pioneers a bold approach to graviton condensation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-02 Yoong S. Phang , Artem V. Talanov

We derive a generalized Gross-Pitaevski (GP) equation immersed on a electromagnetic and a weak gravitational field starting from the covariant Complex Klein-Gordon field in a curved space-time. We compare it with the GP equation where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-11 Tonatiuh Matos , Eduardo Gomez

We study Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in one-dimensional noninteracting Bose gases in Poisson random potentials on $\mathbb R$ with single-site potentials that are nonnegative, compactly supported, and bounded measurable functions in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Maximilian Pechmann

We study a relativistic scalar field model for self-bound Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) by analyzing a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation with cubic and logarithmic interactions. This framework captures essential features of quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-14 Kevin Hernández , Elías Castellanos

Detecting the faint signal of continuous gravitational waves (CWs) stands as a major frontier in gravitational-wave astronomy, pushing the need for detectors whose sensitivity exceeds the standard quantum limit (SQL). Here, we propose an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-16 Xinyang Yu , W. Vincent Liu , Xiaopeng Li

Phase transitions are well understood and generally followed by the behavior of the associated thermodynamic quantities, such as in the case of the $\lambda$ point superfluid transition of liquid helium, which is observed in its heat…

We investigate the collective excitations of a one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with repulsive interaction between atoms in a quadratic plus quartic trap. By using the variational approach, the coupled equations of motion for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guan-Qiang Li , Li-Bin Fu , Ju-Kui Xue , Xu-Zong Chen , Jie Liu

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas has now been achieved. Alkali atoms ($^{87}Rb$, $^{23}Na$ and $^{7}Li$) have been cooled to the point of condensation (temperature of 100 nK) using laser cooling and trapping, followed by magnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Luca Salasnich

We report on measurements of the excitation spectrum of a strongly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A magnetic-field Feshbach resonance is used to tune atom-atom interactions in the condensate and to reach a regime where quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 S. B. Papp , J. M. Pino , R. J. Wild , S. Ronen , C. E. Wieman , D. S. Jin , E. A. Cornell

We theoretically investigate measurement-based feedback control over the motional degrees of freedom of an oblate quasi-2D atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to continuous density monitoring. We develop a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-15 Zain Mehdi , Matthew L. Goh , Matthew J. Blacker , Joseph J. Hope , Stuart S. Szigeti

Because of their superfluid properties, some compact astrophysical objects such as neutron stars may contain a significant part of their matter in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We consider a partially-relativistic model of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

We experimentally measured the ultra-narrow momentum width of an optical trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in situ based on matter-wave interference, which validates our previous theoretical work [arXiv: 2205.02416]. By sweeping the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-16 Angang Liang , Shuyu Zhou , Yu Xie , Mingshan Huang , Su Fang , Bin Wang , Liang Liu