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We demonstrate analytically that a Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic trap with zero-range attractive interparticle interactions is unstable if there is more than 1 boson. Replacing the zero-range interaction by a short-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Brosens , J. T. Devreese , L. F. Lemmens

At the superfluid-solid 4He interface there exist crystallization waves having much in common with gravitational-capillary waves at the interface between two normal fluids. The Rayleigh-Taylor instability is an instability of the interface…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 S. N. Burmistrov , L. B. Dubovskii , V. L. Tsymbalenko

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

We study the dynamic behavior of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) containing a dark soliton separately reflected from potential drops and potential barriers. It is shown that for a rapidly varying potential and in a certain regime of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-01 Dongmei Wang , Bo Xiong , Tao Yang

We investigate theoretically the Bose-Einstein condensation of trapped magnetoexcitons in a two-layered system with one layer containing electrons and the other layer containing holes. We have studied the spatial variations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. -R. Eric Yang , J. Yeo , S. Han

The collapsing dynamics of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with attractive interaction are revealed to exhibit two previously unknown phenomena. During the collapse, BEC undergoes a series of rapid implosions that occur {\it…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroki Saito , Masahito Ueda

We study rotating quasi-two-dimensional Bose-Einstein-condensates, in which atoms are dressed to a highly excited Rydberg state. This leads to weak effective interactions that induce a transition to a mesoscopic supersolid state.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-07-13 N. Henkel , F. Cinti , P. Jain , G. Pupillo , T. Pohl

The linked fluid dynamics videos depict Rayleigh-Taylor turbulence when driven by a complex acceleration profile involving two stages of acceleration interspersed with a stage of stabilizing deceleration. Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2013-10-15 P. Ramaprabhu , V. Karkhanis , A. G. W. Lawrie

We revisit the canonical Rayleigh-Taylor instability and investigate the case of a thin film of fluid upon the underside of an inclined plane. The presence of a natural flow along the plane competes with the conventional droplet forming…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 P. -T Brun , Adam Damiano , Pierre Rieu , Gioele Balestra , François Gallaire

Rayleigh-Taylor (RT) instability commonly arises in compressible systems with time-dependent acceleration in practical applications. To capture the complex dynamics of such systems, a two-component discrete Boltzmann method is developed to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-08 Huilin Lai , Chuandong Lin , Hao Xu , Hailong Liu , Demei Li , Bailing Chen

A periodically kicked ring of a Bose-Einstein condensate is considered as a nonlinear generalization of the quantum kicked rotor. For weak interactions between atoms, periodic motion (anti-resonance) becomes quasiperiodic (quantum beating)…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Chuanwei Zhang , Jie Liu , Mark G. Raizen , Qian Niu

Motivated by the observation that electrons in graphene, in the hydrodynamic regime of transport, can be treated as a two-dimensional ultra-relativistic gas with very low shear viscosity, we examine the existence of the Rayleigh-B\'enard…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-04-22 Oliver Furtmaier , Miller Mendoza , Ilya Karlin , Sauro Succi , Hans Jürgen Herrmann

Quantum droplets may form out of a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate, stabilized by quantum fluctuations beyond mean field. We show that multiple singly-quantized vortices may form in these droplets at moderate angular momenta in two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-10-23 M. Nilsson Tengstrand , P. Stürmer , E. Karabulut , S. M. Reimann

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

Motivated by recent experiments, we analyse the stability of a three-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) loaded in a periodically driven one-dimensional optical lattice. Such periodically driven systems do not have a thermodynamic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 Sayan Choudhury , Erich J. Mueller

An attractive Bose-Einstein condensate with a vortex splits into two pieces via the quadrupole dynamical instability, which arises at a weaker strength of interaction than the monopole and the dipole instabilities. The split pieces…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroki Saito , Masahito Ueda

The ground state of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a two-dimensional trap potential is analyzed numerically at the infinite-particle limit. It is shown that the anisotropy of the many-particle position variance along the $x$ and $y$ axes can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-07-09 Ofir E. Alon

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

It is shown theoretically that a persistent current can be continuously created in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of alkali atoms confined in a multiply connected region by making use of a spin-degree of freedom of the order parameter of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tomoya Isoshima , Mikio Nakahara , Tetsuo Ohmi , Kazushige Machida

Using magnetically trapped atomic hydrogen as an example, we investigate the prospects of achieving Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute Bose gas. We show that, if the gas is quenched sufficiently far into the critical region of the phase…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. C. Stoof