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The processes of merging and splitting dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensates are studied in the nonadiabatic, high-density regime. Rich dynamics are found. Depending on the experimental parameters, uniform soliton trains containing more than…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. J. Chang , P. Engels , M. A. Hoefer

The Bogoliubov theory is extended to a Bose-Einstein condensation with internal degrees of freedom, realized recently in $^{23}$Na gases where several hyperfine states are simultaneously cooled optically. Starting with a Hamiltonian…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Tetsuo Ohmi , Kazushige Machida

We consider Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) subject to the action of spin-orbit-coupling (SOC) periodically modulated in the radial direction. In contrast to the commonly known principle that periodic potentials do not create bound states,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-15 Chunyan Li , Vladimir V. Konotop , Boris A. Malomed , Yaroslav V. Kartashov

We investigate the possibility that the BEC-like phenomena recently detected on two-dimensional finite trapped systems consist of fragmented condensates. We derive and diagonalize the one-body density matrix of a two-dimensional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Juan Pablo Fernández , William J. Mullin

Recently the Bose-Einstein phenomenon has been proposed as possible physical mechanism underlying the spontaneous symmetry breaking in cold gauge theories. The mechanism is natural and we use it to drive the electroweak symmetry breaking.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Sannino , Kimmo Tuominen

Recently the Bose-Einstein phenomenon has been proposed as possible physical mechanism underlying the spontaneous symmetry breaking in cold gauge theories. The mechanism is natural and we use it to drive the electroweak symmetry breaking.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesco Sannino , Kimmo Tuominen

It is shown that the interface in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in which one component exhibits a dipole-dipole interaction spontaneously forms patterns similar to those formed in a magnetic liquid subject to a magnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-13 Hiroki Saito , Yuki Kawaguchi , Masahito Ueda

Theoretical study is presented for a spinor Bose-Einstein condensate, whose two components are coupled by copropagating Raman beams with different orbital angular momenta. The investigation is focused on the behavior of the ground state of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-04 Y. Duan , Y. M. Bidasyuk , A. Surzhykov

We consider a BEC of rigid rotor molecules confined to quasi-2d through harmonic trapping. The molecules are subjected to an external electric field which polarizes the gas, and the molecules interact via dipole-dipole interactions. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-07 Joseph C. Smith , Seth T. Rittenhouse , Ryan M. Wilson , Brandon M. Peden

Models of two-dimensional (2D) traps, with the double-well structure in the third direction, for Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) are introduced, with attractive or repulsive interactions between atoms. The models are based on systems of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Arthur Gubeskys , Boris A. Malomed

The onset of pattern formation in a spatially homogeneous system subjected to external driving is an important topic in various scientific fields. A celebrated classical example is the Faraday instability, where a vertically oscillated…

For many years, $^4$He typified Bose-Einstein superfluids, but recent advances in dilute ultra-cold alkali-metal gases have provided new neutral superfluids that are particularly tractable because the system is dilute. This chapter starts…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-15 Alexander L. Fetter , Christopher J. Foot

Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) is considered under conditions of Feshbach resonance in two-atom collisions due to a coupling of atomic pair and resonant molecular states. The association of condensate atoms can form a molecular BEC, and the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladimir A. Yurovsky

This paper is devoted to the study of the dynamics of two weakly-coupled Bose-Einstein condensates confined in a double-well trap and perturbed by random external forces. Energy diffusion due to random forcing allows the system to visit…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Garnier , F. Kh. Abdullaev

The quantum self-trapping phenomenon of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) represents a remarkable nonlinear effect of wide interest. By considering a purely dipolar BEC in a double-well potential, we study how the dipole orientation affects…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Bo Xiong , Jiangbin Gong , Han Pu , Weizhu Bao , Baowen Li

A two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) split by a radial potential barrier is investigated. We determine on an accurate many-body level the system's ground-state phase diagram as well as a time-dependent phase diagram of the…

Spin-orbit (SO) coupling can be introduced in a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gauge potential acting only in a localized spatial domain. Effect of such a SO "defect" can be understood by transforming the system to the integrable…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-23 Yaroslav V. Kartashov , Vladimir V. Konotop , Dmitry A. Zezyulin

After recalling briefly the connection between spontaneous symmetry breaking and off-diagonal long range order for models of magnets a general proof of spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry as a consequence of Bose-Einstein Condensation is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elliott H. Lieb , Robert Seiringer , Jakob Yngvason

We consider the homogeneous Bose gas in the three-dimensional unit torus, where $N$ particles interact via a two-body potential of the form $N^{-1} v(x)$. The system is studied at inverse temperatures of order $N^{-2/3}$, which corresponds…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Andreas Deuchert , Phan Thanh Nam , Marcin Napiorkowski

In this work, we consider quasi-one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), with spatially varying collisional interactions, trapped in double well potentials. In particular, we study a setup in which such a 'collisionally…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wang , P. G. Kevrekidis , N. Whitaker , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. Schmelcher , S. Middelkamp