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We investigate the stability properties of breather soliton trains in a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensate with Feshbach Resonance Management of the scattering length. This is done so as to generate both attractive and repulsive…

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The recent observations of a stable molecular condensate emerging from a condensate of bosonic atoms and related "super-chemical" dynamics have raised an intriguing set of questions. Here we provide a microscopic understanding of this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-07-16 Zhiqiang Wang , Ke Wang , Zhendong Zhang , Shu Nagata , Cheng Chin , K. Levin

This paper is concerned with the long wavelength instabilities (infrared catastrophes) occurring in Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We examine the modulational instability in ``cigar-shaped'' (1D) attractive BECs and the transverse…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 P. G. Kevrekidis , G. Theocharis , D. J. Frantzeskakis , A. Trombettoni

In a harmonically-trapped rotating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a vortex of large angular momentum decays to multiple vortices of unit angular momentum from an energetic consideration. We demonstrate the formation of a robust and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-08-20 S. K. Adhikari

We discuss the response of a Bose-Einstein condensate to a change in the scattering length, which is experimentally realized by tuning the magnetic field near a Feshbach resonance. In particular, we consider the collapse of the condensate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-13 R. A. Duine , H. T. C. Stoof

Preparation of molecular quantum gas promises novel applications including quantum control of chemical reactions, precision measurements, quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Experimental preparation of colder and denser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Zhendong Zhang , Liangchao Chen , Kaixuan Yao , Cheng Chin

We report on the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) placed in an optical lattice whose phase is suddenly modulated. The frequency and the amplitude of modulation are chosen to ensure a negative renormalized…

We investigate an attractive atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped by a double-well potential in the axial direction and by a harmonic potential in the transverse directions. We obtain numerically, for the first time, a quantum…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-04 Giovanni Mazzarella , Luca Salasnich

When the rotating frequency of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in a weak anisotropic harmonic potential is suddenly quenched to its trapping frequency, the condensate evolves from its ground state to a single-mode…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-08-07 Li Chen , Fei Zhu , Zheng Tang , Liang Zeng , Jae Joon Lee , Han Pu

We report on the observation of the confinement-induced collapse dynamics of a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (dBEC) in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We show that for a fixed interaction strength the collapse can be initiated in-trap…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-11-26 J. Billy , E. A. L. Henn , S. Müller , T. Maier , H. Kadau , A. Griesmaier , M. Jona-Lasinio , L. Santos , T. Pfau

We theoretically investigate the dynamics of modulation instability (MI) in two-dimensional spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). The analysis is performed for equal densities of pseudo-spin components. Different combination…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-22 S. Bhuvaneswari , K. Nithyanandan , P. Muruganandam , K. Porsezian

A gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) offers an ideal testing ground for studying symmetry breaking, because a trapped BEC system is in a mesoscopic regime, and situations exist under which symmetry breaking may or may not occur.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Masahito Ueda , Yuki Kawaguchi , Hiroki Saito , Rina Kanamoto , Tatsuya Nakajima

We consider a system of coupled Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equations describing a binary quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with intrinsic time-dependent attractive interactions, placed in a time-dependent expulsive parabolic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-02 R. Radha , P. S. Vinayagam , J. B. Sudharsan , Wu-Ming Liu , Boris A. Malomed

We report on the experimental observation of classical Brownian motion in momentum space by a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of Rubidium atoms prepared in a hexagonal optical lattice. Upon suddenly increasing the effective atomic mass, the…

Supersolidity in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which is the coexistence of crystalline density modulation and global phase coherence, emerges from the interplay of contact interactions, long-range dipole-dipole forces, and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-29 Changjian Yu , Jinbin Li , Kui-Tian Xi

Weak measurement in tandem with real-time feedback control is a new route toward engineering novel non-equilibrium quantum matter. Here we develop a theoretical toolbox for quantum feedback control of multicomponent Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-11 Hilary M. Hurst , Shangjie Guo , I. B. Spielman

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

We investigate the dynamics of an ion moving through a homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) after an initial momentum is imparted. For this, we derive a master equation in the weak-coupling limit and Lamb-Dicke approximation for the…

We report on the observation of controllable spatial separation in a dual-species Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with $^{85}$Rb and $^{87}$Rb. Interparticle interactions between the different components can change the miscibility of the two…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-20 S. B. Papp , J. M. Pino , C. E. Wieman

We predict a dynammical classical superfluid-insulator transition (CSIT) in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in an optical and a magnetic potential. In the tight-binding limit, this system realizes an array of weakly-coupled…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Smerzi , A. Trombettoni , P. G. Kevrekidis , A. R. Bishop