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We study the quantum dynamics of the two impurities in a trapped quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We explore the effect of impurity-BEC and impurity-impurity interaction strengths on the dynamics of impurities inside…

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Superfluidity and superconductivity have been studied widely since the last century in many different contexts ranging from nuclear matter to atomic quantum gases. The rigidity of these systems with respect to external perturbations results…

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We investigate the effect of a current nonlinearity on the evolution of a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. We have implemented techniques from the field of nonlinear optics to provide new insights into the irregular dynamics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-02-14 Mohammed F. Saleh , Patrik Öhberg

We report the experimental observation of the disruption of the superfluid atomic current flowing through an array of weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates. The condensates are trapped in an optical lattice superimposed on a harmonic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 F. S. Cataliotti , L. Fallani , F. Ferlaino , C. Fort , P. Maddaloni , M. Inguscio

The ability to generate and tune quantized persistent supercurrents is crucial for building superconducting or atomtronic devices with novel functionalities. In ultracold atoms, previous methods for generating quantized supercurrents are…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-09-05 Junpeng Hou , Xi-Wang Luo , Kuei Sun , Chuanwei Zhang

We theoretically investigate superradiance effects in quantum field theories in curved space-times by proposing an analogue model based on Bose--Einstein condensates subject to a synthetic vector potential. The breaking of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-04-08 Luca Giacomelli , Iacopo Carusotto

We present a universal theory for the critical behavior of an impurity at the two-dimensional superfluid-Mott insulator transition. Our analysis is motivated by a numerical study of the Bose-Hubbard model with an impurity site by Huang et…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-22 Seth Whitsitt , Subir Sachdev

We consider bosonic atoms in an optical lattice at integer filling, tuned to the superfluid-Mott insulator critical point, and coupled to a single, mobile impurity atom of a different species. This setup is inspired by current experiments…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-12 Matthias Punk , Subir Sachdev

The dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate is studied theoretically in a combined periodic plus harmonic external potential. Different dynamical regimes of stable and unstable collective dipole and Bloch oscillations are analysed in terms…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Brand , Andrey R. Kolovsky

We investigate the influence of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on the properties of immersed impurity atoms, which are trapped in an optical lattice. Assuming a weak coupling of the impurity atoms to the BEC, we derive a quantum master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-22 Alexander Klein , Martin Bruderer , Stephen R. Clark , Dieter Jaksch

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,…

Supersolidity, combining superfluid and crystalline orders, has been realized in dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates by tuning interatomic interactions. Here we show that supersolidity can also emerge from mode coupling at a superfluid-solid…

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Recently created self-bound quantum droplets of binary Bose mixtures open intriguing possibilities for the study of impurity physics. We show that the properties of impurities embedded in quasi-one-dimensional droplets are determined by the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-08-21 Sudip Sinha , Sayak Biswas , L. Santos , S. Sinha

Inflow BC plays a critical role in the study of hyperbolic PDE in a bounded domain. We establish $W^{1,\infty}$ stability for 1D hyperbolic conservation laws with inflow data in a bounded interval, and $W^{2,3+}$ stability of a large class…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Yan Guo , Yanjin Wang

In a cigar shaped Bose-Einstein condensate, explicit solutions of the coupled mean-field equations, describing defect-grey soliton dynamics are obtained, demonstrating the coexistence of grey soliton and a localized defect. Unlike the case…

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We study the quantum dynamics of a single impurity following its sudden immersion into a Bose-Einstein condensate. The ensuing formation of the Bose polaron in this general setting can be seen as impurity decoherence driven by the…

The turbulent transport of impurity particles in plasma edge turbulence is investigated. The impurities are modeled as a passive fluid advected by the electric and polarization drifts, while the ambient plasma turbulence is modeled using…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Priego , O. E. Garcia , V. Naulin , J. Juul Rasmussen

We examine the properties of atomic current in a superfluid oscillating circuit consisting of a mesoscopic channel that connects two reservoirs of a Bose-Einstein condensate. We investigate the presence of a critical current in the channel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-18 Xue Yang , Wenkai Bai , Chen Jiao , Wu-Ming Liu , Jun-Hui Zheng , Tao Yang

Persistent currents--inviscid quantized flow around an atomic circuit--are a crucial building block of atomtronic devices. We investigate how acceleration influences the transfer of persistent currents between two density-connected,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-07-09 A. Chaika , A. O. Oliinyk , I. V. Yatsuta , N. P. Proukakis , M. Edwards , A. I. Yakimenko , T. Bland

A superfluid flows without friction below a critical velocity, exhibiting zero drag force on impurities. Above this threshold, superfluidity breaks down, and the internal energy is redistributed into incoherent excitations such as vortices.…