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Immiscible to miscible quenching instabilities in two-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensates

Quantum Gases 2026-04-13 v1 Atomic Physics

Abstract

Immiscible to miscible quenching transitions (IMQT) in homogeneous Bose-Einstein condensate are investigated, considering rubidium isotopes 85^{85}Rb and 87^{87}Rb confined in a two-dimensional (2D) circular box, under two different initial configurations. These IMQT instabilities, triggered by sudden reductions in the two-body interspecies scattering length a12a_{12}, are explored under two distinct initialconditions, highlighting the critical role of nonlinear dynamics in their evolution. The numerical simulations indicate that the instability dynamics are primarily driven by the production of large vortices and the propagation of sound waves (phonons), with sound wave excitations prevailing in the long-term evolution. The compressible and incompressible parts of the kinetic energy spectra, in terms of the wave number kk, are confronted with the classical Kolmogorov scaling, k5/3k^{-5/3} for turbulence, which is observed in the onset of instabilities. Before reaching the ultraviolet dissipation region at small scales, the IMQT spectra exhibit a bottleneck effect, indicating a clear departure from classical scaling behavior. In the time asymptotic miscible regime, it is observed that the vorticity and sound-wave production remain practically stable. In this regime, for both cases investigated, a linear relation is also recognized between the miscibility parameter and the initial IMQT configuration.

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@article{arxiv.2604.08714,
  title  = {Immiscible to miscible quenching instabilities in two-dimensional binary Bose-Einstein condensates},
  author = {Lauro Tomio and S. Sabari and Arnaldo Gammal and R. K. Kumar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.08714},
  year   = {2026}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures. Contribution to the 9th Asia-Pacific conference on Few-body problems inPhysics

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