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Inspired by investigations of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) produced in the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station, we present a study of thermodynamic properties of shell-shaped BECs. Within the context of a…

Static, dynamic, and topological properties of hollow systems differ from those that are fully filled as a result of the presence of a boundary associated with an inner surface. Hollow Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) naturally occur in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-07-18 Kuei Sun , Karmela Padavić , Frances Yang , Smitha Vishveshwara , Courtney Lannert

We investigate the hollowing transition of a shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate using collective excitations. The shell is created using an immiscible dual-species BEC mixture, with its hollowness controlled by tuning the repulsive…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-18 Zerong Huang , Kai Yuen Lee , Chun Kit Wong , Liyuan Qiu , Bo Yang , Yangqian Yan , Dajun Wang

Shell-shaped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is a typical quantum system in curved geometry. Here we propose a new type of shell-shaped BEC with self-bound character, thereby liberating it from stringent conditions such as microgravity or…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-01-30 Yinfeng Ma , Xiaoling Cui

Extending the understanding of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) physics to new geometries and topologies has a long and varied history in ultracold atomic physics. One such new geometry is that of a bubble, where a condensate would be…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-12-10 N. Lundblad , R. A. Carollo , C. Lannert , M. J. Gold , X. Jiang , D. Paseltiner , N. Sergay , D. C. Aveline

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) confined on shell-shaped surfaces have been proposed as a platform for exploring many nontrivial quantum phenomena on curved spaces. However, as the shell-shaped trapping potential generated with the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-21 Fan Jia , Zerong Huang , Liyuan Qiu , Rongzi Zhou , Yangqian Yan , Dajun Wang

Shell-shaped hollow Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) exhibit behavior distinct from their filled counterparts and have recently attracted attention due to their potential realization in microgravity settings. Here we study distinct features…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-11-03 Karmela Padavić , Kuei Sun , Courtney Lannert , Smitha Vishveshwara

Bubble-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) constitute a unique class of quantum fluids with a hollow, thin-shell geometry that supports a wide variety of phenomena that are distinct from those of compact condensates. Numerical…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-06 Abel Beregi , Jean-Baptiste Gerent , Nathan Lundblad

The problem of understanding how a coherent, macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) emerges from the cooling of a thermal Bose gas has attracted significant theoretical and experimental interest over several decades. The pioneering…

Motivated by the recent achievement of space-based Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) with ultracold alkali-metal atoms under microgravity and by the proposal of bubble traps which confine atoms on a thin shell, we investigate the BEC…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-22 A. Tononi , L. Salasnich

Phase transitions are ubiquitous in nature, ranging from protein folding and denaturisation, to the superconductor-insulator quantum phase transition, to the decoupling of forces in the early universe. Remarkably, phase transitions can be…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-01-14 C. N. Weiler , T. W. Neely , D. R. Scherer , A. S. Bradley , M. J. Davis , B. P. Anderson

Bose-Einstein condensate shells, while occurring in ultracold systems of coexisting phases and potentially within neutron stars, have yet to be realized in isolation on Earth due to the experimental challenge of overcoming gravitational…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-16 Karmela Padavić , Kuei Sun , Courtney Lannert , Smitha Vishveshwara

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 study a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at low energy limit and show that their collective dynamics exhibit interesting topological behavior. The system undergoes dynamical topological phase transition at its global periods if its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Mehdi Abdi

We review the quantum statistical properties of two-dimensional shell-shaped gases, produced by cooling and confining atomic ensembles in thin hollow shells. We consider both spherical and ellipsoidal shapes, discussing at zero and at…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-30 A. Tononi , L. Salasnich

Weakly interacting, dilute atomic Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have proved to be an attractive context for the study of nonlinear dynamics and quantum effects at the macroscopic scale. Recently, atomic BECs have been used to investigate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 A. J. Allen , N. G. Parker , N. P. Proukakis , C. F. Barenghi

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is a quantum mechanical phenomenon directly linked to the quantum statistics of bosons. While cold atomic gases provide a new arena for exploring the nature of BEC, a long-term quest to confirm BEC of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-11 Kosuke Yoshioka , Eunmi Chae , Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

The dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is studied at nonzero temperatures using our variational time-dependent-HFB formalism. We have shown that this approach is an efficient tool to study the expansion and collective excitations of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-08-29 Abdelâali Boudjemâa

In trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), \emph{condensate growth} refers to the process in which an increasing number of quasi-particles are immediately transferred from the non-condensate state (the thermal cloud) into the condensate…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Gigliola Staffilani , Minh-Binh Tran

A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) formed on a curved surface with a distinct topology has been a hot topic of intense research, in search of new phenomena in quantum physics as well as for its possible application in quantum computing. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-05-21 Luis E. Young-S. , S. K. Adhikari
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